At the top of the mania in 2000, Stacey Brown was "straight-out laughed at." Not anymore. Interesting change in fortunes for her.
--Wes Masuda
Since we first re-printed the quote from Prechter’s Perspective in January, we’ve observed the advance of women into traditionally male roles ranging from presidential politics to anchorman to roller derby. Now they’re moving into one of the most exclusively male barroom occupations, the role of the bouncers, er door person. As Bob Prechter has stated, in the middle of the Cycle wave three in the 1950s, it was a “man’s world.” In the bear market of the 1970s, women started to get out of the house. In Cycle V, they continued to hold down empoloyment, but there was still a “glass ceiling,” that separated them from certain roles and most of the top spots. But the barriers are shattering now. It’s increasingly a woman’s world and the evidence of it is sprouting up everywhere. Consider this recent headline from The New York Times:
At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust
Men now make up only 42% of the nation's college students. At institutions like Harvard, small liberal arts colleges like Dickinson and huge public universities like the University of Wisconsin and U.C.L.A.women are walking off with a disproportionate share of the honors degrees. Yes, it’s been happening gradually and for some time, but the trend is accelerating and being recognized now because this is what takes place at the start of third wave decline in social mood.
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