Hanna Rosin discusses the end of men — or, rather, of male dominance:
Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women?
“Most managers are now women” (an Atlantic editor escalated this to claim most middle managers are now women — both comments without citation)
Not sure what their definition of manager/middle manager might be. The assertions could be true if they’re including, say, shift supervisors in a fast-food restaurant, but not if they’re looking for larger and more autonomous management positions. For example, a friend of mine recently completed a study of women in sales, and found that relatively few women move into sales management positions in corporations. Successful saleswomen tend to either stay in pure sales jobs (in which they can often make more money than in first-level sales management) or leave and start their own companies. If you look at corporate management jobs in manufacturing, engineering, IT, distribution/logistics, etc, the presence of women is considerably less than 50%.