In the real world, meanwhile, ordinary men and women are moving peacefully towards a more gender-equal world. Dramatic economic improvements for women are being matched by a huge increase in the amount of domestic work and child care being done by men. Support for the ideals of gender equality continues to rise. There are more men in our homes caring for kids, and more women in the Houses of Congress, C-suites, and state legislatures.
Childbirth trauma is a major public health issue in the United States, as well as globally, with up to one third of mothers1 describing their birth experiences as traumatic, and up to 20 percent reporting clinically significant symptoms of PTSD, though the number is likely higher given the prevalence of underreporting, misdiagnosis, and an absence of routine screening protocols and any formal diagnosis.
The hysterical commentators warning that women are destroying civilisation really need to man up. Alas, male victimhood is a rich seam.
The fear that women are conspiring against men online, voting with our hormones, capturing institutions and, naturally, causing wokeism is almost irresistibly appealing
Academia was once a man’s game. Most early American universities were founded as training academies for clergy and other professional men. But the tide turned quickly. Women have received the majority of American undergraduate degrees every year since 1982, master’s degrees since 1987, and doctorates since 2006.
ow do modern-day moms really feel? It’s a question almost no one in positions of cultural power actually takes the time to ask. We hear endless talk about closing the “gender pay gap,” designing workplace policies to shove mothers back into offices, and celebrating women who “do it all.” But when was the last time anyone paused, looked a mother in the eye, and listened to how she feels about the relentless messaging that motherhood is somehow lesser?
Maternal instinct, or any instinct really, is biological and automatic- Maternal intuition, on the other hand, is different. Intuition comes from experience, memory, and attention. It’s developed over time, and allows mothers to read and respond to a given situation without having to take the time to reason through options. But at some point in history, in conjunction with industrialization, advances in childhood technologies, and the institutionalization of childhood, intuition in large part ceased to be passed down.
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