“If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.”

Stephanie Coontz’s essay on the male/female employment/compensation seesaw and the “overinvestment in … gender identity instead of … individual personhood” has been sitting atop the Times’ most-emailed list all weekend. It’s an interesting read, and so are the comments. If you don’t have time for a three-page opinion piece on gender disparity (whaaat?), there’s a TL;DR accompanying graph.