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With Kay Hymowitz's new book, Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys (http://www.amazon.ca/Manning-Up-Rise-Women-Turned/dp/0465018424) (Basic Books), coming out on Tuesday, we thought it'd be a good time talk about why the demise of men in the workforce is a big crock of sh*t. Here is one response to the subject that was originally published on The Good Men Project (http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/men-at-work-objecting-the-end-of-men-and-celebrating-masculinity-in-the-workforce/). Click here to read an excerpt of (http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin_3800/3896_manning-up.html)Manning Up (http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin_3800/3896_manning-up.html). It’s hard to imagine a more talked-about magazine article in recent years than Hanna Rosin’s 2010 essay in The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/) prophesying “The End of Men.” Guys, she argued, are just not cut out for the New Economy and are being surpassed by women. The proposition has inspired a lot of debate [AskMen responded with Why Men Are Still Dominant In The Workforce (http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin_500/501_why-men-are-still-the-dominant-force.html) and The End Of Men? Not Quite (http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin_500/503_the-end-of-men-not-quite.html)], a forthcoming book by Rosin and even 20 pitches for sitcoms -- on CBS alone! (ABC must have received (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/arts/television/last-man-standing-and-man-up-on-abc-review.html) quite a few too). There’s just one problem. Until now, no one has bothered to look at the labor-market statistics that Rosin has used to make her case. I did -- and found many of her claims were misleading or even untrue. Women aren’t a majority of the workforce, nor are they most of the nation’s managers; 1 in 5 men are not out of work; and women don’t dominate 13 of the 15 job categories expected to grow the most in the next decade. These aren’t small errors -- taken together they form the crux of Rosin’s argument. Hannah Rosin and The Atlantic owe American men everywhere an apology. Woman managers Ms. Rosin writes: “According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women now hold 51.4 percent of managerial and professional jobs -- up from 26.1 percent in 1980.” In The Atlantic‘s summary of the article -- which, in fairness to Ms. Rosin, was probably not written by her -- the magazine was more succinct: “Most managers are now women too.”Not true! In 2009 women did indeed (ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aa2009/pdf/cpsaat11.pdf) make up 51.4% of 52.2 million million people employed in “Management, professional, and related occupations.” In 2010 that figure (http://bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf) was actually 51.5%. But as its name implies, “management, professional and related occupations” is a big catch-all mega-category. At that level of aggregation, all of America’s 139 million workers fit in one of these five mega-categories:You can break the “managers and professionals” category down into, well, managers and professionals:And once you’ve done so, more men are managers than women. Ladies made up (http://bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf) just 38.2% of the 15 million people in management occupations in 2010 -- and just 25.5% of the 1.5 million chief executives.What else negates the decline of men in the workforce? That's next... Continue Reading (http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin_3800/3895_men-at-work.html)
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With Kay Hymowitz's new book, Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys (http://www.amazon.ca/Manning-Up-Rise-Women-Turned/dp/0465018424) (Basic Books), coming out on Tuesday, we thought it'd be a good time talk about why the demise of men in the workforce is a big crock of sh*t. Here is one response to the subject that was originally published on The Good Men Project (http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/men-at-work-objecting-the-end-of-men-and-celebrating-masculinity-in-the-workforce/). Click here to read an excerpt of (http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin_3800/3896_manning-up.html)Manning Up (http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin_3800/3896_manning-up.html). It’s hard to imagine a more talked-about magazine article in recent years than Hanna Rosin’s 2010 essay in The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/) prophesying “The End of Men.” Guys, she argued, are just not cut out for the New Economy and are being surpassed by women. The proposition has inspired a lot of debate [AskMen responded with Why Men Are Still Dominant In The Workforce (http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin_500/501_why-men-are-still-the-dominant-force.html) and The End Of Men? Not Quite (http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin_500/503_the-end-of-men-not-quite.html)], a forthcoming book by Rosin and even 20 pitches for sitcoms -- on CBS alone! (ABC must have received (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/arts/television/last-man-standing-and-man-up-on-abc-review.html) quite a few too). There’s just one problem. Until now, no one has bothered to look at the labor-market statistics that Rosin has used to make her case. I did -- and found many of her claims were misleading or even untrue. Women aren’t a majority of the workforce, nor are they most of the nation’s managers; 1 in 5 men are not out of work; and women don’t dominate 13 of the 15 job categories expected to grow the most in the next decade. These aren’t small errors -- taken together they form the crux of Rosin’s argument. Hannah Rosin and The Atlantic owe American men everywhere an apology. Woman managers Ms. Rosin writes: “According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women now hold 51.4 percent of managerial and professional jobs -- up from 26.1 percent in 1980.” In The Atlantic‘s summary of the article -- which, in fairness to Ms. Rosin, was probably not written by her -- the magazine was more succinct: “Most managers are now women too.”Not true! In 2009 women did indeed (ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aa2009/pdf/cpsaat11.pdf) make up 51.4% of 52.2 million million people employed in “Management, professional, and related occupations.” In 2010 that figure (http://bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf) was actually 51.5%. But as its name implies, “management, professional and related occupations” is a big catch-all mega-category. At that level of aggregation, all of America’s 139 million workers fit in one of these five mega-categories:You can break the “managers and professionals” category down into, well, managers and professionals:And once you’ve done so, more men are managers than women. Ladies made up (http://bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf) just 38.2% of the 15 million people in management occupations in 2010 -- and just 25.5% of the 1.5 million chief executives.What else negates the decline of men in the workforce? That's next... Continue Reading (http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin_3800/3895_men-at-work.html)
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