The New Dominant Females in The End of Men by Hannah Rosin

The word feminism first appeared in France and the Netherlands in 1872, and by 1910 it had spread all over the world. The feminism is defined as “the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men”. The feminist movement is divided into three “waves”

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The article “The End of Men”, written by Hannah Rosin was published in The Atlantic, July/August 2010. The article is about how women are increasingly getting influence in society and how this will ultimately lead to a change in the balance between men and women, where women are now more dominant. There are more women that have high educations then there are men. And for the first time in U.S. history the majority of the workforce are women. When parents are given the opportunity to decide the sex of their child they more often choose a girl because the general perception is that girls have a better chance of doing well in the post-modern society than boys have. Girls are better able to concentrate and to communicate, and the physical energy that boys have is not helpful in today’s society. The traditional male jobs are disappearing and while there are more and more jobs for the highly educated woman. Finally a new, dominant type of woman has emerged: A woman with a mind of her own, whom actively takes power over men.

In the article Hannah Rosin arguments that woman are taking over the male’s dominant role in society. Rosin talks the to recipients thoughts and reason, she gives a set of facts which shows the growing influence of women in society. In this way she shows her readers that she is right in what she says:

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...that they very well might be the ones working while their husbands stayed at home, either looking for work or minding the children.

The men will be inferior to women. Men will now, for the first time in history have to adapt to the women’s world, where there are other things than raw physical power that count, and many men may end up being conqured by strong women: “ The New York Times columnist Gail Collins recently wrote that the cougar phenomenon is beginning to look like it’s not about desperate women at all but about “desperate young American men who are latching on to an older woman who’s a good earner.””

Scientists at the University of Newcastle have managed to create human sperm cells using a female embryonic stem cell. This means that women are now able to reproduce without the presence a man. So, the question is, are men even needed in todays society?