Is There a Difference Between Boys and Girls?

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Yonw: Boys mature much slower, and not just biologically with their pre frontal cortex. Young men more likey to be living at home with their parents in their twenties than young women are. Tey're much more likely to go straight from high school to college. And so there's a sort otthere's almost like a linear path that girls are taking. The guys are much wantig to stop out of college. They'e much wore, ikg to drop out ofcollege. E what am i supposed to do now? Where is teddi and the er wetho,. for all its faults, the north en north star eolecte.

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.