Compelling, confronting and devastating, The End of Men is the novel that everyone is talking about. We’d love your help. Only men are affected by the virus; only women have the power to save us all. Carol Tavris writes in the Wall Street Journal that "[Rosin] avoids the journalistic habit of doing 'spotlight interviews' with individuals selected to support the writer's hypothesis, a practice she knows is misleading. Rosin is right, men are on their way out- and there is nothing that is going to stop it. Hannah Rosin’s thesis in her new book, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women—that men have lost their control over prosperity and power and women are becoming the dominant sex—ignores this study’s troubling conclusion to the book’s great detriment. In The End of Men and the Rise of Women, published in 2012, Hanna Rosin suggests that women tend to be “plastic,” a metaphor for flexible and adaptive, and men tend to be “cardboard,” a metaphor for rigid and lacking grit. The "End of Men" and Rise of Women in the High-Skilled Labor Market Guido Matias Cortes, Nir Jaimovich, and Henry E. Siu NBER Working Paper No. It's up, I haven't read it, but no. The swift adaptation of women to their new situation is extremely life-affirming. Still, at least ours doesn't have the death rate that the fictional Plague does. The End Of Men (Paperback) : Sweeney-Baird, Christina : The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive. 24274 February 2018, Revised November 2018 JEL No. Women have made great strides in equality and may be better off than at any time in history, but their gains haven’t come at the expense o The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive. The Male Plague is a natural phenomenon and coincidentally affects only men due to the genetic action of the virus. I expect the author didn’t think we’d actually be able to compare our real life experiences with that of her fictional pandemic. The feminist slant here is what happens in a world where 90% of men are wiped out - how that changes society, and family, and relationships. Rosin uses the shift in the American economy as one of her main sources. [3], Annalee Newitz of NPR describes the book as "a frustrating blend of genuine insight and breezy, unconvincing anecdotalism" but also that "the book manages to register a cultural shift in the process of happening, which is an exceedingly difficult task". I was absolutely blown away by this debut from Christina Sweeney-Baird and The End Of Men is definitely one of those books that will stay in my head for a long time to come. She investigates and realises patient zero came in from Bute a few days earlier .... this starts The Plague of 2025 which only kills men. Highly recommended. 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