#136: Boys Adrift With Dr. Leonard Sax

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 8 September 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

During the past 10 years or so, there's been an uptick in the number of books and newspaper articles about how young men today our floundering. Fewer young men are going to college than in years past, and those that do go, fewer of them are graduating. What's more there's a general sense that young men today are simply unmotivated to seek out gainful employment or starting families. Meanwhile, girls and young women are surpassing boys and young men in education and in work. My guest today on the podcast has spent his career studying how the biological differences between boys and girls and the changes in our culture and society during the past few decades can explain these discrpencies in achievement. His name is Dr. Leonard Sax and he's the author of several books including Boy's Adrift and Girls on the Edge. Today on the podcast, Dr. Sax and I discuss how gender effects the emotional and intellectual development of boys and girls and what parents and schools can do to help them thrive based on their unique attributes. If you're a parent, you won't want to miss this episode.

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0:00.0	Let's get started.
0:15.4	Bremeca here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:18.4	So let's say in the past ten years or so, there's been this uptick in the number of articles
0:21.8	you see in magazines, websites, newspapers, even books written on this topic.
0:27.0	The topic is the fact that young men in America and in other Western countries are floundering.
0:32.0	They're not doing too great.
0:33.2	Fewer young men in America are going to college.
0:35.1	Those that do go to college, fewer of them are graduating from college, fewer earning
0:38.9	advanced degrees.
0:40.4	The earning prospects of men have been declining for the past twenty or thirty years.
0:45.3	All the while, more women have been going to college, graduating college, earning advanced
0:50.0	degrees, and the earnings have been going up.
0:52.4	What's going on here?
0:53.4	There's been lots of theories put out there why that is.
0:56.2	Well, my guest today on the podcast has spent his career studying the sex differences between
1:01.8	boys and girls and how this can affect their flourishing in the development and adolescence
1:06.4	and into young adulthood.
1:07.9	His name is Dr. Leonard Sachs.
1:10.3	He is the author of several books.
1:12.3	His first was Why Gender Matters.
1:14.4	Second, which we'll be talking a lot about today is called Boys A Drift, where he takes
1:18.5	on and proposes his ideas and backed by research on why boys are struggling in today's modern
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