Readings on Claims about "The End of Men"

Framing the Debate

Hanna Rosin, The End of Men, The Atlantic, July/August 2010

Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys, The Atlantic, May 2000

Hanna Rosin, The Genius Gap: Are Boys the Second Sex?, New York Magazine, June 4, 2010

Andrew Romano & Tony Dokoupil, Men's Lib, Newsweek, Sept. 20, 2010

Pew Research Center, The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families, Pew Research Center, Nov. 18, 2010

Belinda Luscombe, Who Needs Marriage? A Changing Institution, Time Magazine, Nov. 18, 2010

Meredith Melnick, Why Women are Better at Everything, Time, June 28, 2011

Imani Perry, Blacks, Whites and the Wedding Gap, The New York Times Rev., Sept. 16, 2011

David Brooks, Op-Ed., Honor Code, The New York Times, July 5, 2012

Jason DeParle, Two Classes, Divided by "I Do", The New York Times, July 15, 2012

Alex Williams, Just Wait Unitil Your Mother Gets Home, The New York Times, August 10, 2012

Hanna Rosin, Who Wears the Pants in This Economy?, The New York Times Magazine, Aug. 30, 2012

Joan C. Williams and Anne-Marie Slaughter, Family well-being tied to men's work lives, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 1, 2012

Monda El-Naggar, Family Life According to the Brotherhood, The New York Times, Sept. 4, 2012

Hanna Rosin, Why 'The End of Men' Is More Complicated Than It Seems, The Atlantic, Sept. 5, 2012

Joan Williams, Back to Work, with Cigars, Huffington Post, Sept. 7, 2012

David Brooks, Why Men Fail, The New York Times, Sept. 11, 2012, A19

Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers, Time's Rosin Ignores Data, Conjures Monster Women, WeNews, Sept. 13, 2012

Sabrina Tavernise, Life Spans Shrink for Least-Educated Whites in the U.S., New York Times, Sept. 20, 2012

Stephanie Coontz, The Myth of Male Decline, The New York Times, Sept. 29, 2012

Hanna Rosin, Male Decline Is No Myth, Slate Magazine, Oct. 2, 2012

Stephanie Coontz, The Rise of Women Does Not Mean the End of Men, Slate Magazine, Oct. 4, 2012

Reviews of Hanna Rosin, The End of Men and the Rise of Women

More Perspectives

Michelle Conlin, The New Gender Gap, Businessweek, May 25, 2003

Christina Hoff Sommers, Being a Man: Harvey Mansfield Ponders the Male of the Species, The Weekly Standard, Apr. 10, 2006

Maria Shriver & Ctr. For Am. Progress, A Women's Nation Changes Everything (2009)

We Did It!: The Rich World's Quiet Revolution: Women are Gradually Taking Over the Workplace, The Economist, Dec. 30, 2009

Daisy Hernandez, The "End of Men" Isn't the End of Racism, Colorlines, June 30, 2010

Jessica Bennett & Jesse Ellison, Women Will Rule the World, Newsweek, July 5, 2010

William Tucker, The End of Men, The Beginning of What?, The American Spectator, July 7, 2010

Diane Johnson, The Marrying Kind, N.Y. Rev. Books, Aug. 19, 2010

Lorna O'Hanlon, Strides Still Needed in Girls' Education, Says Women's Rights Expert, United Nations Girls' Education Initiative, Sept. 8, 2010

It's a She-conomy, Intuit, Oct. 2010

Anne Slater, Essay Review: "The End of Men" – Or the End of Class Analysis?, Freedom Socialist: Voice of Revolutionary Feminism, Oct. 2010

W. Bradford Wilcox and Elizabeth Marquardt, When Marriage Disappears: the New Middle America, The National Marriage Project, University of Virginia, Dec. 2010

Ricardo Hausmann, Laura D. Tyson, & Saadia Zahidi, The Global Gender Gap Report 2011

Kay S. Hymowitz, Where Have the Good Men Gone?, Wall Street J., Feb. 19, 2011

Ralph Richard Banks, An Interracial Fix for Black Marriage, Wall Street J., Aug. 6, 2011

Eric Sentell, Higher Education: A Key to Avoiding the "End of Men"?, Role/Reboot, Sept. 30, 2011

Kate Bolick, All the Single Ladies, The Atlantic, Nov. 2011

Suzanne Venker, The End of Men Means the End of Women, Too, Nat'l Rev. Online, Nov. 7, 2011

Janelle Nonos, Single by Choice, Boston, Jan. 2012

Rachel Emma Silverman, Does Paternity Leave Hurt Women?, Wall Street J., Feb. 29, 2012

Joan Williams, How the Gender Wars Became a Class War, Huff Post, Mar. 20, 2012

Lisa Mundy, Women, Money and Power, Time, Mar. 26, 2012

Jonathan Rauch, Two Americas, Growing Apart, Reason Foundation, May 2012

Susan Gregory Thomas, Are Dads the New Moms?, Wall Street J., May 11, 2012

Shaila Dewan & Robert Gebeloff, More Men Enter Fields Dominated By Women, N.Y. Times, May 20, 2012

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Why Women Still Can't Have it All, The Atlantic, July 2012

Jodi Kantor, Elite Women Put a New Spin on an Old Debate, N.Y. Times, June 21, 2012

Joan Williams, Slaughter vs. Sandberg: Both Right, Huff Post, June 22, 2012

David Weidner, Women are Better Investors, and Here's Why, Wall Street J. MarketWatch, June 24, 2012

Eduardo Porter, Motherhood Still a Cause of Pay Inequality, New York Times, Jun. 12, 2012