We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

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

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

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.

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

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.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.