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Is our postmodern, postindustrial society sim­ply better suited to women than to men? Hanna Rosin makes the case for this claim in the July/August 2010 issue of The Atlantic, and her article,"The End of Men," demands close attention. Men,she argues, are accutane no prescription needed 40mg simply falling behind women in almost every sector of cultural influence and accutane no prescription needed 40mg eco­nomic power. This shift, she understands, is noth­ing less than unprecedented in the span of human history.

Rosin begins her article with the accutane no prescription needed 40mg fact that sex-selection technologies in the West are now more often used to accutane no prescription needed 40mg select a preference for girls than for boys, reversing the historical trend. Why? She explains, "Man has accutane no prescription needed 40mg been the dominant sex since,well, the dawn of mankind. But for accutane no prescription needed 40mg the first time in human history, that is changing-and with shock­ing speed. Cultural and accutane no prescription needed 40mg economic changes always reinforce each other. And the global economy is accutane no prescription needed 40mg evolving in a way that is eroding the historical pref­erence for male children, worldwide."

Rosin's article is accutane no prescription needed 40mg well documented and forceful in argument. The bottom line is the accutane no prescription needed 40mg claim that the trend and trajectory of the global economy have accutane no prescription needed 40mg for some time now been headed toward female skills and talents. At the accutane no prescription needed 40mg most basic level, this means a shift from physical strength to accutane no prescription needed 40mg intellectual energies and education. At the next level, it also means a accutane no prescription needed 40mg shift from leadership models more associated with males toward the nurturing leadership more asso­ciated with women. In any event, the changes are colossal.

Nothing has accutane no prescription needed 40mg brought this into clearer sight than the current global recession. In the accutane no prescription needed 40mg united States, the recession has been dubbed a "he-ces­sion," due to accutane no prescription needed 40mg the fact that three-quarters of the 8 million jobs lost were lost by men. Even more dev­astating to accutane no prescription needed 40mg men, most of these jobs will not return,given the vast changes the accutane no prescription needed 40mg recession has brought about. "The worst-hit industries were overwhelm­ingly male and deeply identified with macho: con­struction, manufacturing, high finance. Some of these jobs will come back," Rosin predicts, "but the overall pattern of dislocation is neither temporary nor random."

It's not just the united States, either. In Ice­land, Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir (the first openly-lesbian head of state) ran her campaign for office with a pledge to end the "age of testos­terone."

But the picture in the united States is par­ticularly striking. For the first time in the nation's history, women now outnumber men in the work­force. The working class, "which has long defined our notions of masculinity,"Rosin argues,is "slowly turning into a accutane no prescription needed 40mg matriarchy, with men increasingly absent from the home and women making all the accutane no prescription needed 40mg decisions."

Why? "The postindustrial economy is indif­ferent to men's size and accutane no prescription needed 40mg strength.The attributes that are most valuable today-social intelligence, open communication, the accutane no prescription needed 40mg ability to sit still and focus-are, at a minimum, not predominately male."

Rosin actually makes two main points, and accutane no prescription needed 40mg both demand attention. The first has to do with what is accutane no prescription needed 40mg taking place in working class families. The matriarchy Rosin describes is accutane no prescription needed 40mg now coming more fully into view. In many cases, it is accutane no prescription needed 40mg husbands and fathers who are unemployed and wives and moth­ers who accutane no prescription needed 40mg have paying jobs. This means a huge shift in male function, and accutane no prescription needed 40mg many men just exit the family process or forfeit decision making. Rosin refers to accutane no prescription needed 40mg these men as "casualties of the end of the manu­facturing era." Across the accutane no prescription needed 40mg nation, older men are increasingly unemployed and younger men face little hope of a accutane no prescription needed 40mg job in this sector-the virtual birth­right of previous generations.

of the accutane no prescription needed 40mg fifteen job classifications marked for future growth, men dominate only two: janito­rial services and accutane no prescription needed 40mg computer engineering. The same pattern is now extending to managerial and accutane no prescription needed 40mg pro­fessional roles, where accutane no prescription needed 40mg women currently hold 51.4 percent of jobs. Why are women gaining and accutane no prescription needed 40mg men falling behind? Rosin explains,

   They make up 54 percent of all accoun­tants and hold about half of all
   bank­ing and insurance jobs. About a third of America's physicians are 
   now women,as are accutane no prescription needed 40mg 45 percent of associates in law firms-and both
   those percentages are rising fast. A white-collar economy val­ues raw
   intellectual horsepower, which men and women have in equal
   amounts.It also requires communication skills and social
   intelligence,areas in which women,according to many studies, have a
   slight edge. Perhaps most important-for bet­ter or worse-it
   increasingly requires for­mal education credentials, which women are
   more prone to acquire, particularly early in adulthood.

Beyond the accutane no prescription needed 40mg numbers, Rosin reports that office environments and corporate cultures are adapting to accutane no prescription needed 40mg women, as well, reshaped by the gender transfor­mation of the last twenty-five years.

And yet, even after all this, Rosin makes her most powerful argument when accutane no prescription needed 40mg she looks, not at the current workforce, but at what is accutane no prescription needed 40mg happening on America's college and university campuses. There,she explains, "We can accutane no prescription needed 40mg see with absolute clarity that in the coming decades the middle class will be accutane no prescription needed 40mg dominated by women."

She continues,

   We've all heard about the collegiate gen­der gap. But the implications
   of that accutane no prescription needed 40mg gap have not yet been fully digested.Women now earn 60
   percent of master's degrees, about half of all law and medical
   degrees, and 42 percent of all M.B.A.s. Most important, women earn
   almost 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees-the minimum
   requirement, in most cases,for an accutane no prescription needed 40mg affluent life. In a stark reversal
   since the accutane no prescription needed 40mg 1970s, men are now more likely than women to hold only a accutane no prescription needed 40mg
   high-school diploma. "one would think that if men were acting in a
   rational way, they would be accutane no prescription needed 40mg getting the education they need to get
   along out there," says Tom Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Pell
   Institute for the Study of opportunity in Higher Educa­tion. "But they
   are just failing to adapt."

While many theories to accutane no prescription needed 40mg explain this pattern have been offered, no one can argue with the accutane no prescription needed 40mg num­bers. Boys are accutane no prescription needed 40mg clearly falling behind girls in both educational achievement and aspiration. The long-term consequences of this accutane no prescription needed 40mg shift are momentous and virtually impossible to reverse in a single genera­tion. This pattern has accutane no prescription needed 40mg vast implications for marital prospects, since women express a strong preference to accutane no prescription needed 40mg marry a man of equal or greater educational and professional potential. The collapse of the accutane no prescription needed 40mg marriage culture within the working class, Rosin argues, is due to accutane no prescription needed 40mg the fact that women are in control and have set expectations "too high for the men around them to meet."

Hanna Rosin's article is accutane no prescription needed 40mg not the first salvo of information on these troubling trends, but the accutane no prescription needed 40mg fact that The Atlantic chose her essay as a accutane no prescription needed 40mg cover story is itself evidence of how this phenomenon is accutane no prescription needed 40mg taking hold of attention, even among the elites.

For Christians, the accutane no prescription needed 40mg importance of this article is even greater. God intended for men to accutane no prescription needed 40mg have a role as workers, reflecting God's own image in their vocation. The most important issue here is accutane no prescription needed 40mg not the gains made by women, but the displacement of men. This has accutane no prescription needed 40mg undeniable consequences for these men and for everyone who loves and accutane no prescription needed 40mg depends on them.

The failure of boys to accutane no prescription needed 40mg strive for educational attainment is a sign of looming disaster. Almost anyone who accutane no prescription needed 40mg works with youth and young adults will tell you that, as a accutane no prescription needed 40mg rule, boys are simply not growing up as fast as girls. This means that accutane no prescription needed 40mg their transition to manhood is stunted, delayed, and often incom­plete. Meanwhile, the women are moving on.

What does it accutane no prescription needed 40mg mean for large sectors of our society to become virtual matriarchies? How do we prepare the accutane no prescription needed 40mg church to deal with such a world while maintaining biblical models of manhood and accutane no prescription needed 40mg womanhood?

The elites are accutane no prescription needed 40mg awakening to the fact that these vast changes point to accutane no prescription needed 40mg a very different future.  Chris­tians had better know that matters far more impor­tant than economics are at stake.  These trends represent nothing less than accutane no prescription needed 40mg a collapse of male responsibility,leadership,and expectations.  The real issue here is not the end of men, but the disappear­ance of manhood.