Is It a Problem in Relationships?

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Historically, it has been for women to marry a man who is half a step above him in social status. And suddenly you have more women getting, for your, college degrees than men. Theyre simply not enough highly successful, highly educated men to go around for les women. You end up with problems of family formation and so on. So the phenomenon you're referring to has the incredibly unromantic label of assortative mating. It its like not something to put on your tender profile seeking to a sortatively mate.

Richard Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Dream Hoarders and, most recently, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Richard Reeves discuss how the upper middle-class has cornered the market on economic opportunity; why helping men does not mean undoing progress for women; and whether the problems facing men and boys are more structural than we often think.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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