Is There a Middle Ground?

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Men have been, especially those with less economic power, being dislocated by the change in ther economic relationship between men and women. I think shoring up fatherhood as an independent social institution is a good place to start. In terms of the employment market, we are seeing a decline in traditionally male jobs, but many predominantly female jobs are actually growing. So i think for a couple of reasons, we need to get more men into those jobs. And then in terms of education,. most of these girls' brains already mature later than boys', he says. But if we don't start taking that seriously, we're in trouble.

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.