Hanna Rosin

Do you think it’s true that women have more advantages in this economy than men?

This question is part of the readers guide for The End of Men. Please feel free to ad your answers, comments or more questions in the conversation below.

  • Debrajoe

    As a Marxist I find gender questions uninteresting. So we are switching from a patriarchy to a matriarchy, but economic oppression is still the order we live under. One always hopes the once oppressed learn but they never seem to. Let’s hope people one day free themselves of gender and class.

  • Paul

    If we’re talking about the current age of information, then yes. As a man I see women performing better with their natural skills of multitasking and networking, all with less ego attached. Men perform better when the economy is better.

  • Steve in Esocndido

    Two things. The most important is the war on men that has been conducted for the past 40 years. There is no war on women – it is on men. At first it was about equality but as always it becomes about power and money. Men need to either take Garrison Keeler’s advice (the book of Guys) and let women sustain and build on all that men have built and go camping – or start speaking up instead of remining so affable. That’s what women did. The second reason women are taking it all over is that job tasks today fit well with natural proclivities of women like the ability to multi-task.

  • Master D.

    IT true that women have more advantages in the economy than men, the reason is simple men has more war on them than the women, take for example when there is a vacancy at a jobs site the possibility of women getting the job is 95% while men is 75%. and also Democracy states and gender equality contribute mostly, even in school these day when there is a scholarship the ratio of boys to girls is one (1) to four (4).

  • Gina

    no. i dont know how it is in us, but i live in Dubai and they both are equal. but if you take some countries for example Saudi don’t give any freedom and keep them confined in their houses only. even in India women are scared to go out on their own or in the night because they are scared they will get raped. the rape statistics of India is 23000, america 85,000 but these are only the reported ones. women are confined to the kitchen in some parts of Pakistan so how can there be a rise of women? feminism is not even known by many in Asia these movements are only there in the modernized countries. as a feminist i talk to my friends about all these things and they don’t even care. (p.s im 14).

  • roller203

    no, its not a question of men or women. may be its a question of communication skills and this is a difficult lesson for women AND men together. now you were in berlin. lets read the book obschernitzki “der frau ihre arbeit!”. same questions we had also 100 years ago.