Sunday, January 15, 2006

By Steve Israel
Times Herald-Record
Published: 1/15/06

Excerpt:

"The world seems not cut out for men anymore," says Kelly McBride, who teaches ethics at the journalism think tank, Florida's Poynter Institute, where, if it weren't for affirmative action, nearly 80 percent of the fellowship students would be women.

McBride has a daughter in sixth grade and a son in fourth.

"It was smooth sailing for her, but he's in trouble every week," she says. "He's running in the hall, talking out of turn, getting up out of his seat."

...as men fall further behind women in school, work and life, it will literally be harder to find good husbands, says McBride. She says she's already seen the trend with her 30-something-year-old female friends, who complain they're married to "slacker" men.

The implications, she and other experts say, are profound.

"Relationships between men and women will change, and so will the workplace," says McBride. "Maybe it will create a truly equitable society or maybe it will flip it and women will become so politically, socially and economically powerful, we'll get whiplash..."
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