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JIMMY KIMMEL (Jimmy Kimmel Live; ABC): And here he is now our man in the golden jacket on the red carpet at the Academy Awards.

CHRIS ROCK (Jimmy Kimmel Live; ABC): I`m wearing Dolce Gabbana. What are you wearing?

GUILLERMO RODRIGUEZ (Jimmy Kimmel Live; ABC): This is from Target.

CHRIS ROCK: Okay.

GUILLERMO RODRIGUEZ: Here.

CHARLIZE THERON (Jimmy Kimmel Live; ABC): Those are good stuff, too.

GUILLERMO RODRIGUEZ: Okay. We`re going to shoot it, our movie– your movie.

CHARLIZE THERON: I already drank it. You`re too slow. Oh, my God, that`s really good.

GUILLERMO RODRIGUEZ: I`m sorry. Can– can you drive? Dude, can I get a Eskimo kiss?

CHARLIZE THERON: What`s that? Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. There you go.

BRYAN CRANSTON (Jimmy Kimmel Live; ABC): Are you up for something tonight?

GUILLERMO RODRIGUEZ: Not me, no. Nothing.

BRYAN CRANSTON: You should be. Here we go. Good luck.

GUILLERMO RODRIGUEZ: Good luck. Get out of here, loser. Sorry. Sorry, loser. No way, let`s go away, loser. Loser.

NORAH O`DONNELL: What are they drinking?

CHARLIE ROSE: And who is he?

SOLEDAD O`BRIEN: I think they are doing shots on the red carpet. And not a lot of people get to call Matt Damon a loser on the red carpet.

NORAH O`DONNELL: Yeah. All right. Welcome back to CBS THIS MORNING. Hopefully, all could do some shots tonight on Super Tuesday or something.

Coming up in this half hour is the era of male dominance ending. Author Jack Myers is in our Toyota Greenroom along with New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor. We`ll find out how men are coping with an historic power shift in society.

SOLEDAD O`BRIEN: Plus, the social media posts that could save a life. A woman answers a stranger`s appeal for a kidney donor. Their emotional first meeting only on CBS THIS MORNING. That`s ahead.

CHARLIE ROSE: Right now it`s time to show you some of this morning`s headlines. The Hollywood Reporter is remembering the long career back to George Kennedy. Kennedy was Paul Newman`s burly prison sidekick in Cool Hand Luke. He won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for the role. But Kennedy also showed his diversity in movies like Airport and comedies like The Naked Gun. He died Sunday in Idaho. George Kennedy was ninety-one years old.

NORAH O`DONNELL: The Los Angeles Times reports on a ratings drop for the Oscars. Preliminary ratings show Sunday`s telecast– telecast on average drew 34.3 million viewers. That`s down six per cent. This is on track to be the smallest audience since 2008 when Jon Stewart hosted. It`s unclear if the controversy of the award`s lack of diversity had an effect.

SOLEDAD O`BRIEN: USA Today reports on Disney theme park`s launching demand pricing at Disneyland in California. The old price for an adult was ninety- nine dollars. Now it`s a hundred nineteen dollars on peak days and busy periods like December, spring break or summer weekends. A hundred and five dollars on regular days and ninety-five dollars on value days, which fall mainly between Monday and Thursday on less popular months at Disney parks in Florida. The old price was a hundred and five dollars. It`s a hundred and twenty-four dollars on peak days, a hundred and ten dollars on regular days and a hundred and five dollars on value days.

NORAH O`DONNELL: All I know is it`s over a hundred dollars a lot–

SOLEDAD O`BRIEN: Expensive.

NORAH O`DONNELL: The New York Times reports on results from a crackdown on nail salons. State investigators found violations at virtually all of the two hundred and thirty salons they checked. More than forty per cent were cited for over– underpaying workers. And about eighty-five per cent of the shops didn`t keep proper payroll records. The investigation was prompted by Times` articles that exposed abuses.

CHARLIE ROSE: The San Jose Mercury News reports on Google`s self-driving car causing its first crash. Autonomous cars have been undergoing testing on city streets in California. Last month a self-driving Lexus SUV struck a public bus in Mountain View. Google car was travelling about two miles an hour. No one was hurt.

SOLEDAD O`BRIEN: Business Insider reports on NASA working on a supersonic passenger jet like the Concord. NASA unveiled a preliminary design for Quest by Lockheed Martin. The aircraft would fly nearly as fast as the Concord, but without the sonic boom. The sound would be more like a soft thump.

CHARLIE ROSE: And the Washington Post reports on the discovery of a lizard. The species is at least a million years old. Researchers found them on Papua new ze– New Guinea. They have no idea how the lizards got separated from their closest relatives who are one hundred miles or more away.

NORAH O`DONNELL: A new book argues the traditional male is dying out. You`ve seen men`s roles as fathers and husbands of all through the decades not only in real life but in classic TV shows.

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NORAH O`DONNELL: Jack Myers is author of The Future of Men: Masculinity in the Twenty-First Century. He believe guys will, quote, “…be increasingly defined, dominated, and controlled by women.”

JODI KANTOR (CBS News Contributor/New York Times Correspondent): Mm-Hm.

NORAH O`DONNELL: He`s here. You don`t mind being controlled by women, do you, Charlie?

CHARLIE ROSE: I don`t want to be controlled by anybody.

NORAH O`DONNELL: All right. He`s here at the table along with CBS News contributor and New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor. She has written extensively about gender and workplace issues. Good morning to both of you.

JACK MYERS (Author, The Future of Men): Good morning.

NORAH O`DONNELL: Jack, this is really interesting. You say that male dominance is quickly fading. How did you come to–

JACK MYERS: Yes.

NORAH O`DONNELL: –that conclusion?

JACK MYERS: Well, it`s really general– it`s generational and statistically young men are defying gender norms. They`re undereducated, they`re being out-learned by women, they`re being out-educated by women, they`re being economically outperformed by women, the jobs that are being created now in- – in the workplace are requiring college education, only forty per cent of college degrees are going to men versus sixty per cent going to women, which is a flip of where we were in– in the 1970s. Economically, under thirty, single unmarried women are out-earning single unmarried childless men under thirty by almost twenty per cent. So a single–

NORAH O`DONNELL: So how does that change our–

JACK MYERS: –big generational flip.

NORAH O`DONNELL: Right. And how so, how does that change our concept of masculinity?

JACK MYERS: Well, the– this is not– these young men are not their fathers, they`re not their grandfathers, young men are– who are growing up more and more in fatherless homes, growing up in homes where the woman is out earning her husband where they`re both working. They`re not just defying traditional gender norms, they`re not learning traditional gender norms, so we`re– but yet when they come into the workforce, when they come into their adult years, these traditional gender norms are still being kind of imposed on them.

CHARLIE ROSE: Jodi, what do you think of this?

JODI KANTOR: Well, what we see in our reporting is really that gender roles are converging more than ever before in society, whether you look at women taking combat positions in the military or fathers staying home. Almost nobody is living out the kind of gender script or marriage script that their parents did.

JACK MYERS: Mm-Hm.

JODI KANTOR: And we find a lot of social confusion. I was once interviewing a stay-at-home dad whose wife made a lot of money and he confessed to me, I`d really like to buy my wife a piece of jewelry but I can`t figure out how– how much to spend because she is the one who makes the money. So we hear a lot of everyday dilemmas and people are trying to figure out this new system.

JACK MYERS: And– and that stay-at-home dad when he goes to the party or– or goes to an events with his wife, the first question he`s asked is, so what do you do?

NORAH O`DONNELL: Mm-Hm.

JACK MYERS: And that`s the greatest fear because they`re– they`re not being supported. They don`t have the support groups, they don`t have the sixty years of support that the women`s movement has had. We`re starting a whole new generation that doesn`t get the– the kind of support they need to help them as we`re moving into this new world as they`re moving into a world where two-thirds of all the–

NORAH O`DONNELL: Isn`t that how women have felt for so long–

JACK MYERS: It is.

NORAH O`DONNELL: –that we haven`t gotten the support that we need?

JACK MYERS: It is. Well, women have had three gene– three periods of women`s movements. You go back sixty years and you have had support groups being formed. Almost every corporation has a women`s group, there are no men`s groups, churches, local organizations, community groups, are not supporting men the way they`re supporting women and men are not supporting men the way that women are supporting women.

JODI KANTOR: But, you know, the numbers, though, really, women can maintain dominance, right? But men make more money; women make a no smaller percentage. Women– if you go top CEO list, if you look at politics, kind of in every single category, actually men are doing just fine and certainly better than men.

JACK MYERS: Until you get into the others under thirty. And what I really focus on in the book is our sons and– and the trends that we`re seeing, the patterns we`re seeing and– and what gene– what our sons are coming into in terms of the opportunities they have. They`re not– they`re undereducated. They`re more likely– boys in high school are more likely to be fifth– fifty per cent more likely to be failing math, science, and reading. They`re less likely to get into the colleges because they`re– economically, a college degree doesn`t mean as much to them.

NORAH O`DONNELL: Mm.

JACK MYERS: They only earn ten per cent more in lifetime with a college degree versus women who are likely to earn thirty to forty per cent more with a college degree.

CHARLIE ROSE: So, Jodi, we`re hearing all kinds of news about how the world is changing, including more and more people are getting married. Later, more and more single women are becoming–

JODI KANTOR: Mm-Hm.

CHARLIE ROSE: — an important force.

JACK MYERS: Mm-Hm.

CHARLIE ROSE: How does society sort all this out?

JODI KANTOR: Well, some of it, I think is experienced as very welcome. For instance, when I`ve interviewed younger men, some of them have been grateful and happy to have the expectation of having a spouse who will earn. When you look at the fact that a private school college education costs two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, now there are a lot of younger men who don`t want to assume– assume the burden of providing solely. But I think that Soledad is right to point out that the barriers for women are especially stubborn in many cases.

JACK MYERS: Mm-Hm.

JODI KANTOR: And so we`ve got this sort of complex duel situation. But often ends up feeling less like men are dominant than women are dominant but that people are sharing the anxiety of–

JACK MYERS: Anxiety means actually–

JODI KANTOR: — of earning money and raising a family more equally than ever before.

SOLEDAD O`BRIEN: Is the flip side of anxiety the opportunity to spend time with your children? You look at someone like Mark Zuckerberg who, you know, takes a paternity leave, who`s kind of a role model.

JACK MYERS: Mm-Hm.

JODI KANTOR: I don`t know that there`s a lot of men his age who do that.

JACK MYERS: I do acknowledge in– in my book that even where both parents are working, women and– and even where the woman is out-earning the men, which is in fifty per cent or more of those homes, women are still doing more housework, they`re still doing more child care. That`s changing with younger generations, but we really need to support the men and– and create a better dynamic and a better narrative, especially in media and advertising which portrays men often as idiots, buffoons. Homer Simpson is the most iconic TV dad over the last twenty years. We really in– advertising often portrays men as not able to change the baby`s diaper or pick out their own analgesic. We need to change the narrative around young men. And we need– also need to create a better sense of the man`s role in a relationship and help him understand. Eighty-five per cent of all heterosexual relationships that end are ended by the woman.

SOLEDAD O`BRIEN: Jack Myers, Jodi Cantor, thank you very much. The book`s called The Future of Men. It goes on sale today.

A woman offers one of her kidneys to a stranger after seeing a Facebook post.

DANA JACOBSON: Why did you want to do it?

AMBER MCINTYRE: It literally boils down to the fact that it`s the right thing to do and this is the right thing to do.

SOLEDAD O`BRIEN: Ahead, we`ll show you her first meeting with the transplant patient and the unconventional campaign that brought them together.

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