Manhattan Institute Scholar

Kay S. Hymowitz is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She writes extensively on childhood, family issues, poverty, and cultural change in America.

Hymowitz is the author of 4 books including Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age and Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age. Her newest book, Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Is Turning Men Into Boys, was published by Basic Books in March, 2011.

Ms. Hymowitz has also written for many major publications including The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, New York Newsday, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, and Commentary.

In addition to her writing, Hymowitz has presented her work at many conferences, most recently at "A New Era: Defining Civil Rights in the 21st Century," sponsored by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights She sits on the board of the journal National Affairs and of Future of Children, a publication of the Brookings Institute and the Woodrow Wilson School. She has also discussed her work on numerous radio and television programs.

A native of Philadelphia, Hymowitz has degrees in English literature from Brandeis, Tufts, and Columbia University. She and her husband have three grown children and live in Brooklyn.

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Articles/Op-eds

The Real, Complex Connection Between Single-Parent Families and Crime, The Atlantic, 12-03-12
Shaming Petraeus & the 'National Adultery Ritual', Acculturated, 11-26-12
The Original Culture Warriors, Wall Street Journal, 10-09-12
The End of Men?, National Review Online, 10-02-12
Four Myths About Single Mothers, Slate, 08-03-12
The Single-Mom Catastrophe, Los Angeles Times, 06-03-12
Call a Truce in the Mommy Wars, New York Daily News, 05-13-12
Why Women Make Less Than Men, Wall Street Journal, 04-26-12
Between 'Jersey Shore' and Rick Santorum, Wall Street Journal, 03-23-12
Conservative Women: The Third Sex, The Daily Caller, 03-13-12
The Truth About Marriage In America, FoxNews.com, 12-16-11
Sorry, But The Gender Wage Gap Is Here To Stay, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, 11-13-11
Don't Believe the Hype, College Educated Women Are Still Getting Married, FoxNews.com, 10-19-11
The Decline of Men is a Women's Issue, Cato Unbound, 08-17-11
Women Prefer the Mommy Track, RealClearMarkets, 08-04-11
Why Do People Want to Get Married Anyway?, Forbes, 06-27-11
What the Wal-Mart Case Means for Women in Business, Forbes.com, 06-21-11
Weinergate: Some Parting Thoughts, Forbes, 06-20-11
Anthony Weiner and the National Adultery Ritual, Commentary, 06-14-11
Weinergate: Men Will Always Cheat, The Daily Beast, 06-11-11
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Books

Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys, March 2011
Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age, November 2006
Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age, 2003
Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future—and Ours, October 1999

City Journal articles

The Plight of the Alpha Female, Autumn 2012
The Misunderstood Gender Gap, 16 November 2012
Endangered Welfare Reform, 22 July 2012
American Caste, Spring 2012
Time for AIDS Activists to Get Real, 12 April 2012
Poverty and Newt, Winter 2012
The Empiricist, 5 March 2012
White Blight, 25 January 2012
How Brooklyn Got Its Groove Back, Autumn 2011
Steve Jobs and Other Dirty Hippies, 22 November 2011
Why the Gender Gap Won’t Go Away. Ever., Summer 2011
Still No Sign of Superman, 28 June 2011
Sarah Palin and the Battle for Feminism, Winter 2011
Fragile Urban Families, Autumn 2010
Sex-Ed Ambiguities, 4 February 2010
Femina Sapiens in the Nursery, Autumn 2009
Wise Guys in Cambridge, 4 December 2009
Getting Dads Back on the Job, 8 September 2009
Burying the Lead, 29 May 2009
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Businesswoman, Spring 2009
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