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Wylie wrote "The Disappearance" in 1951. At a moment in time, all human females vanish, leaving men behind. At the same moment, all human males vanish, leaving women behind. Wylie tracks both worlds, through the instant of disappearance, as unpiloted planes and buses crash, men and women making love realize they aren't, and through to the continuation of the cold war. The guys get it all wrong. The women get it right. At the end of a year or so, males and females are reunited. It was a good story for its time. I read it in college; don't know how well it would hold up 57 years later.
