The premiers of the Canada’s four biggest provinces, the head of Harvard, the COO of Facebook, the newly appointed chairwoman of the Fed, ruler of the global economy, Janet Yellen, who got the job basically because Larry Summers said women weren’t that good at math. Women are occupying positions of power that were once totally closed off to them. And that does not count the growing number of single moms who head their own families. Now she’s part of about 40 percent of couples in the US.

Not that long ago she was exceedingly rare. We have a new global type, for example, called the alpha wife, a woman who makes more money than her husband or boyfriend. TWO: It’s the end of men because the traditional household, propped up by the male breadwinner, is vanishing.įor the first time in history women all over the world are marrying down, meaning marrying men with worse prospects than they have. ( MORE: The Real Significance of Mary Barra) Many men, meanwhile, still see school as a waste of time, a girl thing.

Many boys start falling behind as early as first grade, and they fail to catch up. In nearly every country, on all but one continent, women are getting 60 percent of college degrees, which is what you need to succeed these days. It’s the end of men because men are failing in schools and women are succeeding. As one sorority girl put it to me - remember, I said sorority, not someone from the women’s study center - “Men are the new ball and chain.” Now in every part of America young single women under 30 have a higher median income than young men, which is really important because that’s the phase of life when people imagine what their future will look like. Meanwhile, women are moving in the opposite direction: In 2009 they became the majority of the American workforce for the first time ever.

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