Stephanie Coontz The Myth Of Male Decline Analysis

The fact of the matter is that although women have had equal rights for years now, statistics prove they are still making less than men. Stephanie Coontz wrote “The Myth of Male Decline” which was published in The New York Times on September 30, 2012, which argued this exact fact. Stephanie Coontz mentions over a dozen facts in this one article alone to prove her main point; that all though there is an increase in “female breadwinners” (Coontz), women still aren’t on the same level as their fellow male co-workers. Particularly when it comes to equalization of starting salaries, pay, promotional offers, and/or retirement benefits. Stephanie begins, by explaining “which is the richer sex” (Coontz) to show a major point that even though women’s wages have risen while men’s have hovered or stayed the same women started off at a much lower pay to begin with. She then goes on to discuss the prejudice among working mothers as a valid point of the argument. Both aspects of the male and female education pay offs …show more content…
I believe the aim is to anyone who believes the stereo-typical idea that women are treated equally in the work field, when statistically speaking it is obvious women are not. She effectively shows by the statistical facts mentioned throughout the article, that she sides with one side of the argument. Never does she go back and side with the male side of the argument. She does give credit that males are taking on more house hold duties and parenting obligations then they once did but she also cites that women are still doing all these things plus earning money for the household. As stated in the article in paragraph 5, “The curtailment of such male entitlements and the expansion of women’s legal and economic rights have transformed American life but they have hardly produced a matriarchy” (Coontz). This takes a stance of being sided with the woman’s view. It’s almost as if she’s hammering the male