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Boys and men are falling behind. This may seem surprising to some people, and perhaps ridiculous to others, given that discussions about gender disparities tend to focus on the structural challenges faced by girls and women, not the boys and men.
But long-term data reveals a clear and alarming trend: Over the past few decades, American men have experienced increasing difficulty in many areas of life, including education, labor force participation, acquiring skills, salaries and authorship.
Gender politics is often presented as a zero-sum game: any effort to help men harms women. But in his 2022 book Of Boys and Men, journalist and Brookings Institution scholar Richard V. Reeves argues that the structural issues that contribute to male unhappiness affect everyone and that turning away from these difficult conversations is not not a productive way forward.
Read the video transcript https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/male-inequality
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1:35 Men in education
7:26 *Class matters
7:53 Men in the job market
10:54 The men of the family
1:00 p.m. Deaths of despair
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About Richard Reeves:
Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Initiative on the Future of the Middle Class and co-directs the Center on Children and Families. His research at Brookings focuses on the middle class, inequality, and social mobility.
Richard writes for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, National Affairs, The Atlantic, the Democracy Journal, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Dream Hoarders (Brookings Institution Press, 2017) and John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic Books, 2007), an intellectual biography of the British philosopher and liberal politician.
Dream Hoarders was named book of the year by The Economist, political book of the year by The Observer, and was longlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. In September 2017, Politico magazine named Richard one of America's top 50 thinkers for his work on class and inequality.
Originally from Britain, Richard was Director of Strategy to the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2012. He was also Director of Demos, the London-based policy think tank; social affairs editor of the Observer; senior policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform and researcher at the Institute for Public Policy Research. Richard is also a former European Lecturer of the Year and holds a BA from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Warwick.
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Read more of our stories on male inequality:
Toxic masculinity is a harmful myth. Society denies the problems of boys and men.
https://bigthink.com/the-present/toxic-masculinity-myth/
The discreet affection of fathers
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/fathers-love/
Why are sitcom dads always so incompetent?
https://bigthink.com/the-present/sitcom-dads/
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