Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. And
yet, as journalist Hanna Rosin discovered, that long-held truth is no
longer true. At this unprecedented moment, women are no longer merely
gaining on men; they have pulled decisively ahead by almost every
measure. Already "the end of men" -- the phrase Rosin coined -- has
entered the lexicon as indelibly as Simone de Beauvoir's "second sex,"
Betty Friedan's "feminine mystique," Susan Faludi's "backlash," and
Naomi Wolf's "beauty myth" have.
This landmark, once-in-a-generation book will take its place alongside
the works of those authors, forever changing the way we talk about men
and women and what happens between them. Rosin reveals how the new world
order came to be, and how it is dramatically shifting dynamics in every
arena and at every level of society, with profound implications for
marriage, sex, children, work, and more. With wide-ranging curiosity and
insight unhampered by assumptions or ideology, Rosin shows how the
radically different ways men and women today earn, learn, spend, couple
up -- even kill -- have turned the big picture upside down, not just in
the United States but all over the world. And in The End of Men she
helps us to see how both men and women can adapt to the new reality and
channel it for a better future.
