If the house next door has a hole in the roof, of course it doesn't automatically mean your roof is in great shape.

Or if your roof is fine, maybe your pipes are leaking. It's not a zero-sum game.

In the same way, the fact that we're worried about young men having a hard time lately does

not mean young women suddenly have it easy.

From KERA in Dallas, this is think.

I'm Chris Boyd.

We keep hearing that American men are less likely to attend and graduate from college than in the past,

that they're having a harder time finding and keeping jobs and vulnerable to the ideology that fuels toxic masculinity.

It can be illuminating to look for patterns in how gender correlates with our chances for prosperity.

But even if we know men are doing worse than before on some

measures of well-being, it is a mistake to assume women are thriving as a result. Faith Hill is

a staff writer at the Atlantic where you can read her article, Young men aren't the only ones

struggling. Faith, welcome back to think. Hi, thank you so much for having me on.

You opened this piece in Washington, D.C., where you attended the symposium on young American men last fall.

What was the point of that gathering?

Yeah, so the point of that gathering was basically to discuss what was going on with young men that they were struggling in various ways.

So we touched on a lot of the statistics and the issues that you might hear about a lot lately in this kind of, you know,

almost like a men's movement where a lot more speakers have been talking about the ways that men are struggling now and going to college less than in the past and less than women, dropping out of the workforce, dying deaths of despair, which

refers to mortality due to suicide, overdose, or alcoholic liver disease. And so that was all kind of,

you know, the background assumption of the symposium was that,

you know, people would understand this was a grave national issue. And so we were supposed to be there

to kind of talk about what was causing that problem and what there was to do about it. And what left

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