It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

Men make more money but have lower net worths.