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HUFFINGTON
09.09.12
ANNA ROSIN WANTS you to know that her 9-year-old son,
Jacob, questions the title of her book, too. “He sends me notes
that say ‘only bullies write books called The End of Men,” Rosin
says, ruefully. She’s explained that she didn’t actually choose
that title—it was coined by an editor at The Atlantic when
Rosin wrote a cover story two years ago about how women are
gaining on men in almost everything. But while she tried to
think of an alternative when that piece grew into a book, nothing else summed up this moment of transition nearly as well.
So The End of Men and the Rise of Women is dedicated to
Jacob, “with apologies.” - Lisa Belkin
Is it hard not to take this personally:
as in ‘Yay for us women but ouch for
our husbands and sons?’ It’s not like
one team won and the other lost.
There is really great news in
here for women and not so great
news. On the good news front
women have a growing number
of opportunities in the workplace... in positions of leadership and power. The bad news is
that a lot of women in America
are now going it alone. At the
same time, there is good news
and bad news for men. It was
the industries that are defined
as “macho” that took the brunt
of the economic downturn. But
where there could be good is in
the changing acceptable roles
for men, who have always been
hemmed in by narrow social expectations.
Are men pleased about that? I think
men are going through a transition right now. On the one hand
men, and especially progres-
Rosin’s book
comes out
Sept. 11 from
Riverhead.