The End of Men

Is our postmodern society better off with women taking over the most essential top jobs in the world? According to Hanna Rosin's article "The End of Men", published in The Atlantic in July/August 2010, the traditional work environment with men acclaiming most of the top jobs in the world might be on the edge of being totally turned over. The case of the issue is made up at a time where the amount of women occupying jobs in the labour market for the first time ever has exceeded the present number of men working. As Hanna Rosin unduly proclaims that the world might be better off this way, the question is to what extent her hypothesis can be proved correct or not.

Hanna Rosin resolutely explains how sex-selection technologies today are way more used than just a few years back in time when it comes to selection of a preference for girls instead of boys. But you may ask yourself, why is that the case today? Well, if you follow the main point of Hanna Rosin, men have been the dominant sex since the establishment of humanity. According to Hanne Rosin, this sudden change emanates from several factors. First of all, the global economy, especially the west is currently in a state of a depressing recession. This global recession provoked a call for changes in society, which affects the now ex-comprehensive male dominance in modern society. Another important thing to take notice of, is the fact that Hanna Rosin proclaims that she has evidence that shows that countries ruled by more women tend to possess a more solid economy, page 8, line 69-70: "With few exceptions, the greater the power of women, the greater the country's economic success". Let's presume this is correct, at least to some extent. What is missing out though, is that there might be other factors which have impact on before mentioned economic success, as the financial market tend to be unpredictable most of the time. Apart from before-mentioned, Hanna Rosin surely knows how to catch the reader's attention as her use of language is very forceful, appealing and thorough. The article is well documented, and her arguments are innovative and interesting at the same time. An example of the well used documentation is when Hanna Rosin writes about how 8 million jobs alone in the US were lost, obviously caused by the global recession, but what was the most astounding was that 75 % of the jobs were lost by men, page 8, line 85-88: "Once you open your eyes to this possibility, the evidence is all around you. It can be found, most immediately, in the wreckage of the Great Recession, in which three-quarters of the 8 million jobs lost were lost by men". Again, assuming that this fact evidently could be correct, it would be revolutionary and a great proof of the fact that her hypothesis could be right.

In the wake of the great recession the world's financial markets all over the globe, might have had some kind of eye-opener leading to the employment of more women at the labour market than men, as Hanna Rosin mentions right in the start of the article, page 6, line 1-2: "Earlier this year, women became the

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