To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

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.

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

I deeply believe that men and women need each other.

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.

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.