Now David Brooks in the New York Times finds a new sign of the transition: women.
David Brooks cites Hanna Rosin’s new book, The End of Men,” (Riverhead, 2012) which reports for instance on working-class Alabama:
The women she meets are flooding into new jobs and new opportunities — going back to college, pursuing new careers. The men are waiting around for the jobs that left and are never coming back. They are strangely immune to new options. In the Auburn-Opelika region, the median female income is 140 percent of the median male income.
According to Rosin, women are adapting to today’s economy more flexibly and resiliently than men. Signs of the shift include better performance by women-owned small businesses, better performance after changing a job in finance, and increased incomes after a divorce.
The winners in the new economy, according to Brooks, will thus be:
less like Achilles, imposing their will on the world, and more like Odysseus, the crafty, many-sided sojourner. They’ll have to acknowledge that they are strangers in a strange land.
And read also:
The phase change to the Creative Economy
The identity crisis of American capitalism
The only way of the Great Stagnation
The five big surprises of radical management
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Steve Denning‘s most recent book is: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management (Jossey-Bass, 2010).
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Source: Forbes.com | Published: 2012-09-11 14:10:00
