Is There a Difference Between Males and Females?

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The evolutionary psyce theory is that boys from a young age migrate toward things and women, girls, migrate toward more people oriented things. Fromona: It appears that when given the options, you know, more women are still choosing not to go into stem even though they could. This is in sweden, where the obstacles are low. And so the danger is you get some folks, this is typically conservatives, who'll argue that whatever the current gender inequality, it's explained by these differences? Well, is it a and in ho cous i ot on your left, you get anything short of 50, 50 is a sign that we're still living in a patriarchy?, she asks.

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.