In this article called The End of Men in the Atlantic Monthly magazine:
Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, womens progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isnt the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way and its vast cultural consequences.
Like any of these very broad narratives about what is happening in a culture, exceptions abound. But it raises some interesting points about the power of women, the so-called era of the man-child, and a less physical labor based economy here in the US that has left a lot of "manly men" feeling obsolete.
It does seem like we are in an era when gender roles are still being redefined, and what makes a man "a man" and a woman "a woman" are fluid. I wonder if that matters. Do men need a sense of "manliness" based on culture to feel like "a man"? Do women need that? And what does that even mean these days?
Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, womens progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isnt the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way and its vast cultural consequences.
Like any of these very broad narratives about what is happening in a culture, exceptions abound. But it raises some interesting points about the power of women, the so-called era of the man-child, and a less physical labor based economy here in the US that has left a lot of "manly men" feeling obsolete.
It does seem like we are in an era when gender roles are still being redefined, and what makes a man "a man" and a woman "a woman" are fluid. I wonder if that matters. Do men need a sense of "manliness" based on culture to feel like "a man"? Do women need that? And what does that even mean these days?
