The End of Men Quotes

“Women like Bethenny - my friend from the town of vanishing men - have a kind of ambiguous independence right now. They are much less likely to be in abusive relationships, much more likely to make all the decisions about their lives, but they are also much more likely to be raising children alone. It's a heavy load.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“It's more that they think about sexism in the same way people in London must think about bad weather: It's an omnipresent and unpleasant fact of life, but it shouldn't keep you from going about your business.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“To avoid crossing the dreaded 60 percent threshold, admissions officers have created a language to explain away the boys’ deficits: “Brain hasn’t kicked in yet.” “Slow to cook.” “Hasn’t quite peaked.” “Holistic picture.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“The surest way for a man to exhibit his social status—the finest bourgeois bling—is to find the most highly paid woman you can, working in the most high-profile job, and shut her down.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“Technology began to work against men, making certain brawn jobs obsolete and making what economists call “people skills” ever more valuable.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“Perhaps the most depressing stories I heard in Korea were about what happens to successful women in the dating market. Young men and women frequently use dating sites and matchmakers, and like everything else in Korea potential candidates are ranked. Women lose points if they are not working at all, but they lose even more points if they are overeducated or have the potential to work too hard.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“The first clue is that there is hardly any earning gap between women who don’t have children and men.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“Researchers all over the country lab-tested different workplace scenarios, and they always came up with the same result: women who speak tentatively. Women who self-promote are judged to lack social skills. Ditto for women who express any kind of anger in the workplace.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“But as advice books got churned out, the academic research was taking a curious turn. Study after study was finding that women who did not confirm to female stereotypes - who bluntly asked for a raise, self-promoted, demanded credit for work they’d done, or failed to pitch in and help other colleagues - paid a high price in the workplace. People judged them as harsh or unpleasant, did not want to work with them, did not want them as a boss, and - worse- failed to grant their requests for a raise or judge them successful.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“Psychological studies have always shown that men and women have a similar threshold for anger, but that women suppress the anger while men express it.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“Of the thirty professions projected to add the most jobs over the next decade, women dominate twenty, including nursing, accounting, home health assistance, childcare, and food preparation.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“By deciding to work full-time she has not actually ceded the domestic space, but only doubled her load, although neither of them ever articulates that.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“A recent study conducted by the Canadian Medical Association showed that married male heart attack victims arrive at the hospital, on average, half an hour before single men (for women there is no difference).”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“One study showed that the assets of couples who stayed together increased twice as fast as those who had divorced over a five-year period.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“Then an answer occurs to him: ‘It’s because our team is losing. All the things we need to be good at to thrive in the world we imagine existing in ten or twenty or even fifty years from now are things that my female friends and competitors are better at than me. Then us. And I am loath to tell that to someone who is going to put it in print, but it’s true.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“In 1965, women reported doing an average of 9.3 hours of paid work a week and 10.2 hours of childcare. Now women not only do an average of 23.2 hours of paid work a week, but they do more childcare - 13.9 hours.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“In over three-quarters of the couples in my survey, either the woman did more childcare and housework, or they shared equally.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“Yes, the United States and many other countries still have a gender wage gap. Yes, women still do most of the childcare. And yes, the upper reaches of power are still dominated by men. But given the sheer velocity of the economic and other forces at work, those circumstances are much more likely the last artifacts of a vanishing age rather than a permanent configuration.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

“In 2009, for the first time in American history, the balance of the workforce tipped toward women, who continue to occupy around half of the nation’s jobs.”
― Hanna Rosin, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women