For the past century women's progress has been cast as a struggle for equality with men. But what if equality isn't the end point? What if modern postindustrial society is simply better suited to women?
That's the question posed by Hanna Rosin in a provocative article in The Atlantic Monthly.
Men in ancient Greece tied off their left testicle in an effort to produce male heirs; women have killed themselves (or been killed) for failing to bear sons. Simone de Beauvoir suggested women so detested their femininity that they regarded their newborn daughters with irritation and disgust.Rosin says that now the centuries old preference for sons is eroding, and may even be reversing. Many successful women today want daughters who are like them, not sons.
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