"Crisis of Men & Boys" New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/opinion/crisis-men-masculinity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A fascinating contribution that for me strikes at the very heart of the matter. The male malaise is perhaps not the result of a mass psychological breakdown, but of deep economic and structural challenges.

Boys are 50% more likely than girls to fail at 3 key subjects: maths reading and science. In the US wages of most men are lower than they were in 1979 while women's have risen across the board.

In the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45. Men struggle in the labor market because of an economic shift away from traditionally male jobs. Many men have an obsolete ideal: an archaic, outdated belief that being a man means being the main breadwinner for your family.

Then they can’t meet that ideal. Demoralisation follows. Masculinity has gone haywire. Richard Reeve’s “Of Boys and Men” is also a challenging and confronting read. Made so much bloody sense.

Give it a crack.