You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

In the current issue of The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin makes the case that “the end of men” may be upon us. More specifically, she argues that a postindustrial economy has made men’s traditional advantages over women—namely, their physical strength—irrelevant in the workplace. She cites some gloomy statistics: for instance, in the recent downturn, “three-quarters of the 8 million jobs lost were lost by men.” The upshot is that, for the first time in American history, women hold a majority of the nation’s jobs. Blue-collar jobs for men are going away and most likely never coming back, but for working-class women, it’s a different story. Rosin writes, “The U.S. economy is in some ways becoming a kind of traveling sisterhood: upper-class women leave home and enter the workforce, creating domestic jobs for other women to fill.”

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