This chapter explores the mission of an institute focused on identifying and addressing the specific challenges faced by boys and men. It emphasizes the importance of fostering a dialogue that recognizes these issues without framing them as a competition against women's progress.
Many boys and men in America are doing worse than girls and women in education while struggling with a culture that struggles to define what masculinity is in the 21st century. Is this a problem? Richard Reeves thinks so which is why he started the American Institute for Boys and Men. Listen as Reeves discusses the state of boys and men and what might be done about it with EconTalk's Russ Roberts.