vrijdag 15 mei 2015

Where are they?...

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Finally, although stay-at-home dads are still very much in the minority, their numbers have doubled in just a decade’s time.

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What isn’t changing is that top leadership positions remain overwhelmingly filled by men. “As the 99 percent has become steadily pinker, the 1 percent has remained an all-boys club,” Chrystia Freeland pointed out last year, in her book Plutocrats. According to the World Economic Forum’s “Global Gender Gap” report, women around the world hold a mere 20 percent of powerful political positions. In the United States, the female board-membership rate is 12 percent—a disgrace.

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We live in a hollow patriarchy: the edifice is patriarchal, while the majority of its occupants approach egalitarianism. This generates strange paradoXes. Even women with servants and powerful jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars feel that they have an institutional disadvantage. And they’re right. Women in the upper reaches of power are limited in ways that men simply are not. Various men’s movements have emerged, purportedly to provide a counterweight to feminism, but this proposition is inherently absurd. The greatest power still resides in the hands of a few men, even as the majority of men are being outpaced in the knowledge economy. Masculinity grows less and less powerful while remaining iconic of power. And therefore men are silent. After all, there is nothing less manly than talking about waning manliness.

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in: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/the-masculine-mystique/309401.

P.s: Where are the dads today?

P.s: Pour ceuX qui se font des soucis, ici, les choses ne sont pas si compliquées que cela, on a fait simple. Mais la réfleXion peut quand même s'eXprimer grâce à l'ordinateur. On est en effet dans l'auto-publication, ce qui est très positif pour les écrivains. Des écrivains en tous genres comme vous aurez pu le remarquer: des ânes sont en ligne. Et les mondes peuvent lire aujourd'hui ce que des ânes peuvent écrire sur l'état... de ces mondes.

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