And “the end of men”-the title of Rosin’s Atlantic cover story on the subject-has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan’s “feminine mystique,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “second sex,” Susan Faludi’s “backlash,” and Naomi Wolf’s “beauty myth” once did. Today, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: They have pulled decisively ahead. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. “Anchored by data and aromatized by anecdotes, concludes that women are gaining the upper hand." – The Washington Post Essential reading for our times, as women are pulling together to demand their rights- A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world.
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