Nor do most women end up wanting to spend their lives working full-time. In Australia, a hard-working tradesman can make a good living, certainly a better one than my own white collar profession (teaching). First, it's not true that all blue collar work has been made redundant. That does have significant consequences, particularly when it comes to family formation.īut her argument that changes to the economy are the death knell for men is too simplistic. Yes, young women are doing much better than young men when it comes to education and employment. If she is a representative of triumphant womanhood, then humanity is staring into the abyss. Second, Hanna Rosin comes across as insufferable.
My own response to her speech? First, I think it's going to become much harder for feminists to claim that women are oppressed victims when high profile feminists like Hanna Rosin are triumphantly declaring the 'end of men'. She notes, in support of her case, that American women are doing much better than men when it comes to education, employment and wages. An American feminist, Hanna Rosin, has given a speech in which she smugly charts the demise of men.