If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

In the US in recent years, around a third of all open management positions have gone to women. My research over the last three years has shown that the trend is going in the same direction at all levels. And by the way, it's not necessarily that the rise of women is causing the end of men - it's more the other way around. An increasing number of men are failing during their education, losing their jobs and then not managing to get back on their feet, so women have had to step in. The driving force here isn't feminist conviction, it's economic necessity.

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.