I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure. Hanna Rosin More Quotes by Hanna Rosin More Quotes From Hanna Rosin What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well. Hanna Rosin motivationskillsinspiration In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys. Hanna Rosin girlcoupleboys If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe. Hanna Rosin kitchenquiltsmen Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income. Hanna Rosin mothermenchildren We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children. Hanna Rosin environmentperfectchildren Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental. Hanna Rosin doenumbersfacts There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies. Hanna Rosin errorskingspast It's a fact that within the space of a few decades, women have achieved a massive shift in the role they play - in the way they act in public, and in the way they have conquered areas of the working world that were until recently considered a man's domain. Hanna Rosin world I think we should all call ourselves feminists. Hanna Rosin feministshouldthinking Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive. Hanna Rosin menfactsneeds Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices. Hanna Rosin feminismchoicesgiving People with a college education are now less likely to divorce than they were a few decades ago, and they're more likely to describe their marriages as happy. That finding really surprised me. It appears that those with a higher education have been more able to dismantle strict traditional roles and, in doing so, gain more freedom. I call it a seesaw marriage, one in which both the man and the woman take turns being the breadwinner, making it possible for each of them to experience career advancements or breaks at different times. Hanna Rosin divorcecollegemen If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women. Hanna Rosin classaveragemen Pop culture is like our subconscious. Hanna Rosin pop-culturepopsculture As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more. Hanna Rosin vainpowerfulmen Men are now also in the minority among the entering traditionally male-dominated areas such as law and medicine. Finance and politics are still firmly in male hands, but in many other areas it seems the proportions are shifting in women's favor. Boys are doing worse at school and university. It's only logical that this imbalance, which can be observed in most industrialized countries, will change conditions on the job market. Hanna Rosin boyscountryschool If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me. Hanna Rosin dadhusbandhome Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming. Hanna Rosin arousalbrainhome Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard. Hanna Rosin routinemalesdifferent Men aren't able to find jobs anymore, and they're withdrawing from society, essentially creating a matriarchy. For the upper social classes, marriage is still a successful model, but for poorer people it's not. Hanna Rosin successfulmenpeople
