What if the Line Just Keeps Going?

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I'm a baby boomer. I'm about turned 68, born 54. What i said probably reflects my generation. That's what we did. It literally came as a complete shock to everybody that the lines kept going and that these gaps just kept widening and widening. My own view is that the education system is, in some quite important ways, structured in favour of girls and women. In particular, because of the differences in the rate of maturity and maturation among girls and boys. And especially on averagecetera, especially at the critical point,. which is high school. But underneath that is some pretty brute brute biology frances jenson saying there's about a year gap at 15

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.