But she would never say she was a feminist, ever. My great-grandmother ran away from her husband, my grandmother’s husband died very young, and my mother rules the roost in my house. My mother definitely wears the pants in my family, and I come from generations where the men disappeared, got sick, died, or for whatever reason, the women wore the pants. But there was a kind of natural female dominance. Rosin: There were definitely no feminists in my house. Meanwhile, men are even languishing in movies and on television: They’re portrayed as deadbeats and morons alongside their sardonic and successful female co-stars. Of the 15 fastest-growing professions during the next decade, women dominate all but two. For every two men who receive a college degree, three women will. Statistics show they’re rapidly falling behind their female counterparts at school, work, and home. Why are men finished, exactly? Rosin says they’ve failed to adapt to a modern, postindustrial economy that demands a more traditionally-and stereotypically-feminine skill set (read: communication skills, social intelligence, empathy, consensus-building, and flexibility). And that’s why she’ll debate for the motion that “men are finished” during the Sept. That shift, she says, hasn’t showed signs of slowing in the past year. “But for the first time in human history, that is changing-and with shocking speed.”

“Man has been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind,” wrote Rosin, an award-winning journalist for Slate and the Atlantic. Hanna Rosin’s 2010 Atlantic cover story, “ The End of Men, ” was one of the most talked-about magazine articles in recent years.

The End of Men by Hanna Rosin