From NPR: Women have fought tirelessly to establish equal footing for themselves in relationships, politics and the workplace, and according to writer Hanna Rosin, they’ve finally arrived.
In her new book, The End of Men: And The Rise of Women, Rosin argues that the U.S. has entered an era of female dominance.
“Women make up about half the workforce and the majority of college degrees — which these days is the prerequisite to success in this world. But … I discovered that this had seeped into the fabric of our lives — our intimate relationships, our marriages, all the decisions we make in life — and that was the big surprise in reporting the book.
“The latest job numbers show that men are at their lowest labor force participation rate since 1948. They also show that the manufacturing economy has lost almost 6 million jobs, and just about the same number of jobs were added in the health-care industry and the service economy which are largely dominated by women. You can see right there that that creates a different kind of economy.
“If our assumption is that the men are the breadwinners … that men carry the family, when that dynamic shifts, you can see that relationships shift with it. So we have to redefine what we mean by ‘head of the household’ … by ‘manly virtues,’ and what women do, and what men do, and how marriage works, and who raises the children. All these things start to change along with it.” Continue here.
