ITEM The Mike Tyson trial The hotel m which the jury is sequestered goes ablaze. Two fire fighters die in saving its occupants. The trial of Mike Tyson made us increasingly aware of men-as-rapists. The tire fighters’ deaths did not make us increasingly aware of men-as-saviors. We were more aware of one man doing harm […]

In the 1990s, if a woman and man make love and she says she is using birth control but is not, she has the right to raise the child without his knowing he even has a child, and then to sue him for retroactive child support even ten to twenty years later (depending on the […]

The prohibition against divorce gave a woman security in her workplace. Nothing gave a man security in his workplace. His source of income could fire him, her source of income could not fire her. Even today, if he quits his job, he doesn’t get severance pay; if she initiates divorce, she takes half the "corporate […]

Influence power, though, is not real power. If we told mothers, "The more children you have, the more power you will have,” they would laugh. If we then said, "The more children you have, the more everyone will love you and respect you,” the mother would feel pressured, not empowered. But when we tell men, […]

The Catholic church is often quoted as acknowledging, "Give us a child the first five years and we will shape its life." We acknowledge the influence power of the church over its youth; we often ignore the influence power of a mother over her children — including her sons. But it is the mother who […]

In restaurants, men pay for women about ten times as frequently as women pay for men — the more expensive the restaurant, the more often the man pays.19 Women often say, "Well, men earn more " But when two women go to a restaurant, they don’t assume that the woman who earns more will pay […]

In my own examination of large shopping malls (including men’s shops and sporting goods stores) I found that approximately seven times as much floor space is devoted to women’s personal items as to men’s. Both sexes buy more for women. The key to wealth is not in what someone earns; it is *n what is […]

ITEM The U. S. Census Bureau finds that women who are heads of house­holds have a net worth that is HI percent of the net worth of men who are heads of households.14 (The value of the net worth statistic is that it allows us to see what he and she have left when their […]

ITEM When Rodney King was beaten by police, we called it violence against blacks, not violence against men. Had Regina King been beaten, would no one have mentioned violence against women? Myth. Elderly women are the most susceptible to violent crime. Fact Elderly women are the least susceptible to violent crime. The U. S. Department […]

Just as life expectancy is one of the best indicators of power, suicide is one of the best indicators of powerlessness. ITEM Until boys and girls are 9. their suicide rates are identical; — from 10 to 14. the boys’ rate is twice as high as the girls’; — from 15 to 19. four times […]