The text messages in the Dominion case show that Fox was intentionally pushing lies about… Among young adults, especially if they are childless, the pay gap has essentially disappeared.” “The one-word explanation for the pay gap is: children. “There is certainly very little evidence that women are paid less than men for doing the same work,” Reeves explains. This completely misleading statistic seems unkillable. Okay, but don’t women still earn only 82 cents for every dollar earned by a man? Reeves wades into the thicket and I wish him luck.
At the same time, women’s labor force participation has steadily increased (though fluctuating in response to recessions and COVID). The “ missing men” were simply out of the workforce altogether.
Bear in mind that this category is separate from those who were counted as “unemployed” during this period. Even before COVID, there were 9 million prime-age men (between 25 and 54 years old) who were not employed. One in three men without a high school diploma is out of the workforce. By 2019, the gender gap in bachelor awards was 15 points, wider than in 1972-but the other way around.ĭespite the constant invocations of male power and dominance in the workplace, the past several decades have seen a sharp drop in the number of men participating in the labor force at all. At the time, there was a gap of 13 percentage points in the proportion of bachelor’s degrees going to men compared to women. government passed the landmark Title IX law to promote gender equality in higher education. Boys are falling behind at every level of educational attainment. Reeves doesn’t mention this, but many colleges have been practicing silent affirmative action on behalf of male applicants for many years-which only masks the problem. Black girls are more likely than white boys to have graduated from high school young Black women aged 18 to 24 are more likely than young white men to be enrolled in college and a higher proportion of Black women aged 25 to 29 hold postgraduate degrees than white men of the same age. Reeves excels at the eye-popping statistic:īlack women are seizing educational opportunities long denied to them, and on some fronts they have overtaken white men. In the United States, 57 percent of bachelor’s degrees now go to women, as well as three out of five master’s degrees, and the majority of doctorates (though men still strongly dominate Ph.D.s in math, computer science, engineering, and the physical sciences). The gender gap in college attendance and graduation is huge. Girls are more likely than boys to be enrolled in AP and IB classes, and more likely to graduate on time than boys. As Reeves observes, girls now account for 66 percent of high schoolers ranked in the top 10 percent of their classes, while boys comprise a similar percentage of those in the bottom decile. In reality, girls are outperforming boys in education-and not by a little. There is nothing wrong with that, but as Reeves and a handful of others have observed over the last two decades, this focus is significantly out of date.
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I addressed many of these issues in my 2018 book Sex Matters and am always glad to see more hands to the oar (though Reeves and I see certain things differently, which I’ll come to).Īs a culture, we remain stubbornly attached to the notion that girls and women need encouragement, special programs, and remedial measures to bring them into full equality with males in school, in the workplace, in sports-well, pretty much everywhere. Too little has been written about the troubles of boys and men. Throughout most of Richard Reeves excellent new book, Of Boys and Men, I wasn’t just nodding along, I was foot-stomping. Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
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