Posts published on July 4, 2010

The End Of Men :Implications For College Success

This months  Atlantic has a terrific summary of the decline of men relative to women in many spheres.It is by Hanna Rosin at www.theatlantic.com, and she includes college education as a focus where black women graduates exceeded African American males by over 100% in 2009.

Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women ? This is an article on the unprecedented role reversal now under way— and its vast cultural consequences.