And the Rise of Women

The End of Men

What Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, and 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. 
 
Women are no longer catching up with men. By almost every measure, they are out-performing them. 
 
·Women in Britain hold half the jobs 
·Women own over 40% of China's private businesses 
·75% of couples in fertility clinics are requesting girls, not boy 
·Women will outnumber men in the UK medical profession by 2017 
·In 1970, women in the US contributed to 2-6% of the family income. Now it is 42.2% 
 
This is an astonishing time. In a job market that favours people skills and intelligence, women's adaptability and flexibility makes them better suited to the modern world. 
 
In The End of Men, Hanna Rosin reveals how this has come to pass and explains its implications for marriage, sex, children, work, families and society. 
 
Exposing old assumptions and drawing on examples from across the globe, Rosin shows us how we must all adapt to a radically new way of working and living. 
 
'One of the most controversial books since Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth' Stylist 
 
'Explosive' Daily Mail 
 
'Fascinating' Sunday Times

One of the most controversial books since Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth

Very readable, entertaining, informative . . . alarming

Rosin's reporting is not just deep and thorough and responsible, it rises to the level of art

Rosin is a gifted storyteller with a talent for ferreting out volumes of illustrative data, and she paints a compelling picture of the ways women are ascendant

One of the year's most sparred over books

Provocative . . . makes us see the larger picture

Rosin has her finger squarely on the pulse of contemporary culture . . . fresh and compelling

Hanna Rosin is a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine and a founder and co-editor of DoubleX, Slate's women's section. She has written for the New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, and The New Republic, and for a number of years covered politics and religion for the Washington Post. In 2009 she was nominated for a National Magazine Award, and in 2010 she won one. She is the author of a previous book, God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America. Rosin lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, Slate editor David Plotz, and their three children.

Men have been the dominant sex since, well the dawn of mankind. 
But this is no longer true. 
Women are no longer catching up with men. By almost every measure, they are out-performing them. 
 
·Women in Britain hold half the jobs 
·Women own over 40% of China's private businesses 
·75% of couples in fertility clinics are requesting girls, not boy 
·Women will outnumber men in the UK medical profession by 2017 
·In 1970, women in the US contributed to 2-6% of the family income. Now it is 42.2% 
 
This is an astonishing time. In a job market that favours people skills and intelligence, women's adaptability and flexibility makes them better suited to the modern world. 
 
In The End of Men, Hanna Rosin reveals how this has come to pass and explains its implications for marriage, sex, children, work, families and society. 
 
Exposing old assumptions and drawing on examples from across the globe, Rosin shows us how we must all adapt to a radically new way of working and living.

Caitlin Moran

Camille Paglia

Hanna Rosin

Maureen Dowd

‘Men are so last century. They seem to have stopped evolving. The Mad Men world is disappearing and the guys are struggling to figure out the altered parameters of manliness.’ 
Maureen Dowd 
 
‘Do women get anything from men being obsolete? Do we win by triumphing in work, education, the economy, politics and business, while retaining homemaking and child rearing? If that happened then we will be doing everything! Are men obsolete? No! I won’t let you be you f*****s!’ 
Caitlin Moran 
 
Are Men Obsolete is an essential and entertaining read for anyone interested in what happens next in the great gender discussion. Maureen Dowd, Caitlin Moran, Camille Paglia and Hanna Roisin debate whether modern man is past his sell-by-date, and, if so, what does that mean for women?

Hanna Rosin

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