Attention Economy


Saturday, November 26, 2022

Men in Trouble

Why Men Are Hard to Help
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/storage/app/uploads/public/632/4eb/0a1/6324eb0a150de498119695.pdf
 
The Crisis of Men and Boys 
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/opinion/crisis-men-masculinity.html
David Brooks:
If you’ve been paying attention to the social trends, you probably have some inkling that boys and men are struggling, in the U.S. and across the globe.
They are struggling in the classroom. American girls are 14 percentage points more likely to be “school ready” than boys at age 5, controlling for parental characteristics. By high school, two-thirds of the students in the top 10 percent of the class, ranked by G.P.A., are girls, while roughly two-thirds of the students at the lowest decile are boys. In 2020, at the 16 top American law schools, not a single one of the flagship law reviews had a man as editor in chief.

Men Without Work in the Post-Pandemic Era