What Betty Friedan Simone de Beauvoir Susan Faludi & Naomi Wolf did for feminism senior editor of The Atlantic" Hanna Rosin does for a new generation of women: an explosive new argument for why women are winning the battle of the sexes & why men are no longer top dog. Women are no longer catching up with men. By almost every measure they are out performing them. We are at a turning point in history. In 2010 for the first time the balance of the British workforce tipped towards women who now hold around half of the nations jobs. In the US meanwhile for every two men that receive a BA three women will achieve the same. Not only do women dominate colleges & professional schools on every continent except Africa young single women earn more than men in the US & more than a third of mothers in the UK & the US are their familys main breadwinner. The tides have turned. The age of testosterone is decisively over. At almost every level of society women are proving themselves far more adaptable & suited to a job market that rewards people skills & intelligence & a world that has a dramatically diminishing need for traditional male muscle. In this landmark once-in-a-generation book Hanna Rosin reveals how this new world order came to be & its great implications for marriage sex children work families & society. Unhampered by old assumptions & ideologies & drawing on examples from across the globe " The End of Men" helps us see how both men & women can
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- adapt for a radically new era. "[ Its strength] lies in the nuanced portraits Rosin draws of people trying to grapple with new currents of power to assimilate political & economic change in their living rooms & trailers". ("FT Weekend"). " In this bold & inspired dispatch Rosin upends the common platitudes of contemporary sexual politics with a deeply reported meditation from the unexpected frontiers of our rapidly changing culture". (Katie Roiphe author of " The Morning After" & " Uncommon Arrangements"). "" The End of Men" describes a new paradigm that can finally take us beyond winners & losers in an endless gender war. What a relief! Ultimately Rosins vision is both hope-filled & creative allowing both sexes to become far more authentic: as workers partners parents...and people". (Peggy Orenstein author of " Cinderella Ate My Daughter" & " Schoolgirls"). Hanna Rosin is a senior editor at " The Atlantic" magazine & a founder & co-editor of " Double X" " Slates" womens section. She has written for the " New Yorker" " The New York Times" "GQ" & " The New Republic" & for a number of years covered politics & religion for the " Washington Post". In 2009 she was nominated for a National Magazine Award & in 2010 she won one. She is the author of a previous book " Gods Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America". Rosin lives in Washington DC with her husband " Slate" editor David Plotz & their three children."