May 21, 1999

Citing the Rising Influence and Power of Women, 2 Anthropologists Ponder the Future of Men

By KIM A. McDONALD

Colleagues at Rutgers U. offer differing perspectives in books released last week

To many scholars, the flood of women into the labor force during the latter half of this century has been an unusual event in civilization, one made possible by gains in the women's movement and by an increasingly competitive, materialistic, and technologically oriented society.

But to Helen E. Fisher, the rise of the

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