Eleven years after “The Rise of the Matriarchy”

In 2013 I presented a talk, The Rise of the Matriarchy, at Duquesne University for their Students For Liberty chapter.

Me:

It’s wild to go through those old slides and see how much of what I’ve been writing about recently I was also writing about eleven years ago. I have no trouble saying that I was early to this conversation and got a lot right. Most importantly, I predicted that women’s economic power would increase relative to men’s and that this power shift would most likely provoke some kind of unpleasant reaction from bottom-half men. 

However, I didn’t get everything right. In my slide deck I included this graphic:

It is now 2024 and the average woman still does not out-earn the average man.