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Does a changing economy mean the “End of Men”?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For all the bluster of her book’s title, “The End of Men: And the Rise of Women,” Hanna Rosin is surprisingly ambivalent about whether men are, in fact, doomed. Women are quicker to adapt to the economy’s new demands, Rosin says, pursuing higher education in record numbers and dominating fast-growing professions such as nursing and accounting. At the same time, men watch the shrinking of manufacturing, construction and other traditionally male industries as if paralyzed, on the couch with a beer in hand. …

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