"All signs point to a new era of women in charge - socially, economically, politically"

From the Boston Globe, article here. Excerpt:

'Women outnumber men here; you knew that. Women outnumber men in US colleges; you probably knew that, too. You might not have known that women receive almost 60 percent of university degrees in America and Europe combined. So who's going to be running the show? You tell me.

More women have jobs in the US than men. The Bureau of Labor Statistics identifies job categories most likely to grow in the next decade. In 10 of the top 15 categories, women constitute two thirds of the workforce.

Witness the battle of the apothegms: A while back, economist Paul Samuelson (who died last month at 94) acknowledged females' second-class socioeconomic status with the famous remark, "Women are men without money." More recently, conservative agitator Christina Hoff Sommers has reversed the terms of trade. Boys, she has observed, "are tomorrow's second sex."

Two of the three network anchors are women. Women watch more TV, read more books, and subscribe to newspapers more than men. Guess who elected our president, Mr. Sensitive, in 2008? Women, who voted in greater numbers than men. Guess who's going to elect the next senator from Massachusetts? Women, who vote here more than men. So former Jordache jeans model Scott Brown's strategy of posing in camo fatigues doesn't sound real promising, does it?"
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"Girls," Barrett concludes, "are boys plus. They can play sports and have careers, and you can dress them in pink and take them to tea at the American Girl cafe. What’s not to like?"

As the father of three sons, I have my concerns. Have I been raising the underclass of tomorrow? Trina Leonard, who works for MicroSort, thinks I fail to see the silver lining in the new era of women on top. “You know, it may be a boon to men," she said. “They will probably have fewer heart attacks and generally less stressful roles. They can spend more time at home and have more of the pleasures and less of the pain of working life."

Hmmm. Live longer, see your children more, and offload the nasty business of earning a living to the ladies. Sounds good to me.'

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