There's a War on Boys, or War on Men

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If you want to tackle inequalities that affect men, boys and men, where do you go? And the answer was, like, nowhere in the main stream. People who are left to talk and write about these issues tend to be self selected, angry and think that there's a war on men. So that creates a huge space. Because is not to say they don't sometimes make very legitimate points, ta they do, but it's all done from an anti feminist, sometimes feels anti women, angry perspective. I'm just trying to point out how we can get better at tackling inequality if we work together as a community.

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.