When the issue of sexual harassment surfaced, then, we were told “men don’t ‘get it’ ” when, in fact, neither sex “gets” it. Men don’t get women’s fears of harassment that stem from the passive role; women don’t get men’s fears of sexual rejection that stem from the initiating role. Each sex is so preoccupied with its own vulnerability that neither

In 1920 women in the United States lived one year longer than men.3 Today women live seven years longer.4 The male-female life-span gap increased 600 percent.

For our daughters, when the prosperity of industrialized countries allowed for the option of divorces in the ‘60’s and 70’s, women became liberated from marriage and motherhood as the sole definition of feminine purpose. Fortunately, feminism pro-actively filled women’s “purpose void” with visions of careers, liberation and equality. A woman’s new

Is the seven-year gap biological? If it is, it wouldn’t have been just a one-year gap in 1920. If men lived seven years longer than women, feminists would have helped us understand that life expectancy was the best measure of who had the power. And they would be right. Power is the ability to control one’s life. Death tends to reduce control. Life

They see their sex being identified as the discriminators, rapists, date rapists, deadbeat dads, wife-batterers, sexual harassers, serial killers, greedy “banksters,” and unfaithful cheaters. It can feel as if they are at the top, bottom and middle of women’s “enemy list.”

if you are both reader and leader, that just as the women’s movement redefined women and expanded our daughters’ future, you will employ The Myth of Male Power to redefine men and expands our sons’ future—thus preparing our sons to become the men our daughters will be proud to love.

Overall, women control consumer spending by a wide margin in virtually every consumer category.17 With spending power comes other forms of power. Women’s control over spending gives them control over TV programs because TV is dependent on sponsors. When this is combined with the fact that women watch more TV in every time slot,18 shows can’t afford

Stage I religions had to restrict premarital sex because premarital sex led to children without a guarantee for the children’s and woman’s protection. In Stage II, birth control allowed sex to become more associated with fulfillment, communication, and spiritual connection—goals of the Stage II relationship. So Stage II religions can focus less on

Every woman knows that if there was only male birth control, she would not feel in control, she would feel out of control. “Trust me” from a man is laughable; “trust me” from a woman is the law. Birth control created the right of women to choose and the expectation of men to trust. Today, every man who puts a penis in a woman’s body also puts his