”The End of Men” by Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rose is an American female journalist. The article “The End of Men”, written by Hanna, focuses on women overtaking a world that used to be based on a social system where only men knew the better way to a brighter and richer future. Rosin uses over one page to describe how couples prefer girls over boys.
In the beginning Hanna Rosin underlines one important thing: “For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality.” And she is right. For many years women just wanted to be able to do the same things as men. We wanted to work, we wanted to vote and most of all we wanted to live our lives without being suppressed by a male dominant. But times change, and now it is something different which drives women.
On the one hand, she introduces Ronald Ericsson, which is an old biologist and cowboy, and his point of view. He says things like “He’s the boss” and “Breakfast at five-thirty, in the saddle by six, no room for Mr. Limp Wrist”, which I interpret as a gentle kind of male chauvinist thing to say. On the other site in this discussion, is Hanna Rose. She actually manages to convince an old cowboy, and makes him disagree with his own previous thoughts. Like for example: “These mothers look at their lives and think their daughters will have a bright future their mother and grandmother didn’t have, brighter than their sons, even, so why wouldn’t you choose a girl?”.
Ericsson also tells about his highly qualified granddaughter while he’s afraid of his grandson might “screw up” his truck and ruins his life by getting some girl pregnant. With this, I belief Hanna Rose wants to show that even an old cowboy, can see the changing going on between the roles of the sex. At the end, he even says a former classmate of his, are having a sex-change operation.
The biologist and man chauvinist Ronal Ericsson found a way to separate the X and Y chromosome from the male sperm cell, so it was possible to decide if you would have a son or a daughter. His idea was though that parents could choose to have boys instead of girls, because he thought this what was people wanted. But to his surprise, reality was different from his idea. It turned out to be girls rather than boys the Americans couples requested.

This article is not filled with over overstated arguments for women being equal to men. Instead she uses statistics and valid examples to prove her point: “In the 90’s, when Ericsson looked into the numbers ... couples where requesting more girls than boys.” Rosin’s argument is based on numbers from fertility clinics.
And now 40 years later of his discovery from 1970 Ericsson sees the change clearly and also says “Why wouldn’t you choose a girl?” (line 37) In his days as a scientist he said the women was calling the clinics apologizing and said they already had two sons, but they wanted a girl. Nowadays though the tendency is different, now women just call and say outright they want a girl.