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Title: The "End of Men" is Not True: What is Not and What Might be on the Road Toward Gender Equality

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Hanna Rosin has written that she “hesitate[s] to get drawn into data wars” (and suggested my blog to those readers who have “an appetite for them”).1 Statistics, however, are not mere technical details, academic in the pejorative sense. They are reflections of reality – numbers that represent characteristics of a sample which, if done right, reflect the population from which the sample is drawn. It is in the broad sense of measuring reality, not the narrow sense of quibbling over details at the nth decimal place, that the “end of men” is not true. Rosin’s depiction of reality is not accurate. While her prominent 2010 article in The Atlantic2 launched the “end-ofmen” phenomenon, it was only later, while watching her TED Talk,3 that I realized the scale of the problem. Many of the facts offered in that talk were either wrong or misinterpreted to exaggerate the looming . . .

Url: https://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~pnc/BULR2013.pdf

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Authors: Cohen, Philip N

Periodical (Full): Boston University Law Review

Issue: 3

Volume: 93

Pages: 1159-1186

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender

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