What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

Rosin argues that the postindustrial, service- and knowledge-based economy rewards traits associated with modern “soft skills”: sustained attention, communication, listening, and adaptability in less hierarchical workplaces. By claiming women “do extremely well” at these, she frames contemporary economic change as shifting advantage toward women—an idea consistent with her broader thesis that traditional male-coded strengths tied to manufacturing and physical labor have declined in value. The quote is both descriptive and provocative: it generalizes about gendered skill patterns to explain labor-market trends, inviting debate about socialization versus biology, the risk of stereotyping, and whether workplaces truly reward these skills equally across genders.