NPR. Today is Jobs Friday.

That's right. We had 227,000 jobs added to the U.S. economy in November. Now, this is a mixed

picture because while unemployment ticked up a little to 4.2%, you had hourly earnings growing

pretty robustly on average. They were up 4% over the past year to just over $35 an hour. So that's wages overall.

And today we want to zoom in on a subset of that, men's wages and salaries. We want to see

how they've been doing. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Whalen Wong. And I'm Darien

Woods. Today on the show, men at work.

We look at the trends and we ask whether culture is keeping up with economics.

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