Major gender role-reversal may be on the horizon

[holly_evolving]

Interesting:

In the recent recession, 3/4 of the American jobs lost were lost by men. Currently, the U.S. workforce is more than fifty per cent women. And the boom is still swinging our way. For every two men who receive a bachelor's degree this year, three women will. Thirteen of fifteen job sectors expected to grow are dominated by women. And in fertility clinics that offer sex selection, more parents want daughters than sons; sometimes the preference is two to one. In other industrialized nations like South Korea, major shifts have also happened, and they are under way from India to Iceland to Rwanda.

It may not be a man's world much longer.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/

Comments

[holly-evolving.livejournal.com]

I do find the idea of non-adaptive male backlash worrisome, though. You two, and most of the other men I'm friends with, would get through just fine. But I KNOW some guys who are going to go all Al Bundy if it reaches them, or worse.

[thegreyeminence.livejournal.com]

I suspect the backlash will be white before it's male, and directed at immigrants before US-born women. It's not that bitterness is in such short supply that there's none to spare for women, Jews, American Indians, gays, or anyone else, but I think the traditional “outsiders” will feel it first.