What I've found is that there is an enormous shift taking place in our society. Suddenly there are all young women who are better educated and earning more money than men their age. When young couples today decide to marry, they have very different expectations of one another than their parents did. And there's even been change at the very top of the career ladder. People tend to underestimate that.
Hanna RosinWhat I've found is that there is an enormous shift taking place in our society. Suddenly there are all young women who are better educated and earning more money than men their age. When young couples today decide to marry, they have very different expectations of one another than their parents did. And there's even been change at the very top of the career ladder. People tend to underestimate that.
Hanna RosinWe are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
Hanna RosinIf men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
Hanna RosinWe can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.
Hanna RosinWhen women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing social order out of balance. That's exactly what's happened in South Korea, which is a highly patriarchal society. They started educating women, and then they were no longer the women that society wants them to be. That caused a real cultural crisis.
Hanna Rosin