Could it be that women still have a leftover consciousness of being the inferior sex and are trying very hard to prove the old system wrong, while men, again with the same cultural consciousness, are taking it easy, believing at some level that their place and income are secure, as long as the old system lasts? Thus, the rise of women and the "end of men."
Hopefully, we'll get to a point in the near future, when gender distinction will seem pointless, and society will have come up with more adequate criteria to evaluate its members. 
I agree with some thinkers that masculinity and femininity as gender terms differ from male and female as biological terms. The former are culturally produced social labels, but while traditional value systems firmly stipulate that you should be "masculine" if you're a male, and "feminine" if a female, a lot of people today think that both of them are inherent, more or less, in every person, male or female. I guess modern society is on its long way to redefine (or delete?) these two labels in our ideology, so we would have a healthy society where the least possible number of people will feel constrained and uneasy because of preconceptions. I, prersonally, have found it hard to communicate myself on a lot of occasions, because, although a biological male, I'm feeling stronger and stronger connection to what society has been telling me is feminine. And that has nothing to do with sexual orientation, which is, I guess, a related topic, but we need not get involved in it for now. 
Loved your billboard analysis in the previous post and also the assignment you gave to your students. I've been reading your blog on a regular basis for some months now. It's contagiously positive. I've been far from Bulgaria, physically and metanlly, for some years, but through your blog I've started feeling some closeness, appreciation and even affection for it that I don't think I have felt before, especially not while I was still living there. I am very happy someone like you is teaching Bulgarian kids, I wish I had a teacher like that while I was in school. 
Bulgaria can be a tough place, you've already figured it out. But it is changing, and people like you make it change for the better. Thanks for sharing your fun and troubles. Keep it up, Karolinka in Bulgaria.