Ebook: The Privileged Sex

This book argues that the idea women are the oppressed gender is largely a myth, and that women, and not men, are the privileged gender.;Preface to the English edition -- Introduction -- Three legends -- Masculinity and its troubles -- Men, women and work -- From dowries to Social Security -- Facing the law -- In the maws of Mars -- The quaility of life -- The complaining sex -- Conclusions.