At the highest echelons, men are doing well. Just look at the list of Nobel Prize winners, corporate presidents, senators, movie directors and entrepreneurs, all heavily male.
Nineteen fifty-nine was a long time ago. That year, Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states; Grammy award winners included Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
It's now official: There is nothing that can't be magically transmuted into a "values issue."
The Senate on Tuesday debated three important bills: Castle-DeGette, which expands federal funding for stem-cell research that kills human embryos; Santorum-Specter, which funds new research that uses the latest techniques to obtain embryonic-like stem cells without actually destroying embryos; and Brownback-Santorum, which would ban "fetal farming" or the practice of growing human fetuses for the purpose of using their body parts.