Chronique de Margaret Wente dans le Globe and Mail

Extrait:

.« Magdalena Hinojosa, a striking-looking single woman, is a senior associate vice-president at the University of Texas. She’s learned that her job makes men uneasy. So when they ask her what she does, she simply tells them she works at the university, in the admissions office. “You have to hide who you are, at the beginning, until that person is comfortable with you,” she says. » (…)

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« The Richer Sex by Liza Mundy , assembles plenty of evidence that, as women’s ambition is on the rise, men’s ambition is shrinking. Younger women are more focused and achievement-oriented than younger men. They have realistic career goals. Many younger men have no idea what they want to do or be. Younger women in the work force are eager for more responsibility. Younger men aren’t; they’re happy just to get by. »
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Sur le même sujet ou presque

Kelly McParland du National Post

Et si les femmes n’avaient plus besoin des gars et que les gars s’en balancent?

« Men, on the other hand, have largely been ignored, on the apparent assumption that they had what they wanted and didn’t need any special care. As long as you taught them to read and write, and maybe do a little math, they were set. They’d reach working age and automatically set out to earn a living, because it was in their nature. It’s what they wanted.

Except maybe not. While the little girls have been getting lessons in striving, the little boys have been absorbing the message that they no longer have to. (They may look like they’re not paying attention in class, but, really, they do pick up on these things). If there’s no stigma to little Betty growing up to earn a fat paycheque, maybe there’s also no shame to little Billy refusing to do so. In the old days that would have been seen as a failure: litte Billy would have been a deadbeat if he didn’t pull his weight in the workforce. Now it’s a choice. »