If conventional wisdom were a person and that person vomited, this is what would come out.
The article compiles – in lots of words – the conventional wisdom that women are taking over the world. I’ve mused on this topic before and I certainly think it a worthwhile one. However, to write an (huge!) article on it, one should deal with all the sides of the issue. The article does a nice (long-winded) job of summarizing the "positives" of the rise of women. It’s left for others to summarize the negative.
In the words of Doc Holliday, "I’m your huckleberry."
Women are rising in many professions. Unfortunately, they are doing so only with massive subsidy from the government. This subsidy comes in the form of forcing men to pay child support to women who automatically get children in divorce, direct subsidies for working mothers, daycare subsidies, tax breaks, etc. Women may be rising, but an economy based on women-only work is as unthinkable as Greece fully honoring its debt. Women-only work seems to depend on massive, forced wealth transfers from male work. The Great Recession may have revealed weakness in male employment, but it also revealed weaknesses in the economic structure of the US. Our economic system is unsustainable. Subsidies that get women working (and going to school) are a perfect example of this structural unsustainability.
The biggest problem with the rise of women working, which is left unmentioned in the article, is that everyone seems to be really unhappy about it. Women today are less happy than women in the days of oppression (who, but a reactionary, could explain this?). If women are better suited to modern work because of evolution, it’s only fair to acknowledge that evolution may also make women not want to spend 10 hour days in the office.
The author also muses for a couple paragraphs about what a women-dominated world would look like. Unfortunately for her readers, she ignores the most obvious example – the Black community in the US. This women-dominated community is notable for its high level of crime, low level of education, prevalence of poverty, reliance on government support and super-abundance of out-of-wedlock births. What’s not to love?!
This article was written too far into the process to ignore the fact that the victor in this struggle is not women. The victor is a certain kind of man – the alpha, the cad, whatever. To ignore this topic (almost) completely is a journalistic sin. At least grapple with alternative arguments.
Foseti 
You left out one of the major subsidies – direct employment of women by the government in the education, healthcare, and non-profit sectors. If I had a dime for every women my age I knew who wants to direct a non-profit …. The old model for wealthy people is that the husband would work hard, and then the wife would take care of the children and if she had time, would start charities and such. The modern model is that the money is transferred by the government from the man to the women, so the woman can pursue her preferred, save the world, vocation, without the corresponding responsibility of bearing and mothering the next generation of society.
There is one major question for us would-be restorationists though. If we believe that the most plausible prospect for a restoration is via a democratic coup, does restoring the patriarchy still remain a major plank of the restoration? Could women be convinced to vote for that? Or would the restoration party simply use the language of “restoring responsbility” and “no free rides” and then downplay the fact that this would inevitably result in a restoration of the patriarchy.
Good question. I think it’s possible that after another decade or two women would prefer a return to times gone by.
Btw, I really like the line: “The modern model is that the money is transferred by the government from the man to the women, so the woman can pursue her preferred, save the world, vocation, without the corresponding responsibility of bearing and mothering the next generation of society.”
Good question. I think it’s possible that after another decade or two women would prefer a return to times gone by.
As a resident of Cambridge, MA, that’s pretty hard to imagine. I have found a number of girls who will appreciate the select Roissy article, but the idea that patriarchy=bad is so ingrained its hard to imagine the views switching around.
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