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, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t 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.
The Secret Shame of the Working Mother. By Hanna Rosin. The Atlantic, June 26, 2012.
A Woman’s Place. By Jennifer Homans. Review of The End of Men, by Hanna Rosin. New York Times, September 13, 2012.
