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When I was knee-deep in research for my latest book, Influence: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power will Transform Our World for the Better, I was struck by the fact that of all the shifts created by women’s economic emancipation, the most monumental may prove to be its impact on men — their values, their expectations, and their very definition of manhood.

“Men are where women were 20 years ago,” Michael Kimmel, a sociology professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men told me when I interviewed him for Influence. Back then, 20 years ago, women were adding career to their repertoire; today, men are adding care — for children, for aging parents, for communities. And while some (okay, many) might call men’s engagement on the home front belated, this overdue participation may, in fact, be setting the stage for the move toward a partnership society.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not talking about some revolutionary “feminization” of men, where they simply swap roles with women, putting on aprons while women wear suits. What’s happening isn’t role reversal: It’s role reinvention. It’s a full-blown paradigm shift, one that gives both men and women more options when it comes to pursuing their careers, providing for their families and expressing their own talents and strengths. In this new social order, both genders are less shackled by a narrow, gender-oriented vision of success. Men in this new world have more social and workplace support for becoming involved fathers, equal partners in their homes and communities, and more complete people.

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