4.6 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 118 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Mr. Clyde. This is The Ezra Conchell. |
0:07.0 | Music |
0:23.0 | Men and boys are in bad shape. They're in real bad shape. |
0:27.0 | That's the argument of Richard Reeves' new book of boys and men. |
0:31.0 | Or maybe I shouldn't say it's the argument. |
0:33.0 | It's just what the numbers say across a huge range of domains. |
0:37.0 | Health and education and income and happiness and friendship and on and on. |
0:45.0 | Reeves is a senior fellow at Brookings where he's been studying inequality and poverty and family policy and gender inequality for years. |
0:53.0 | And that work has taken him to an unexpected, even uncomfortable place. |
0:58.0 | When we think about gender inequality, we're usually thinking about women and girls and for good reason. |
1:03.0 | Men have been dominant, forcibly dominant, legally dominant in society, functionally forever. |
1:10.0 | And only in recent decades have enormous barriers been even weakened. |
1:16.0 | But the progress women have made in that time is remarkable. |
1:20.0 | Here's one stat resource that blows my mind about Title IX, the big gender equity and education bill has passed in 1972. |
1:27.0 | At that time, there was a 13 point gender gap in bachelor's degrees with men, of course, at 13 points. |
1:34.0 | That gap has only grown since the 15 points, but now it's women ahead. |
1:39.0 | So the gap is bigger now than it was in 1972, but in women's favor. |
1:44.0 | And obviously, obviously the problem there is not that women are doing well. |
1:49.0 | The problem is that in a lot of places men are doing poorly. |
1:53.0 | They're falling behind, they're falling behind where they have been in the past. |
1:57.0 | And they're falling behind in ways that are tough on families, ways that are tough on marriages, ways that are tough on children. |
2:04.0 | And it gets much, much worse when you go down the income ladder. |
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