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| Men to America ‐ Thanks for nothing: Glenn Reynolds |
| 2016-11-24 |
| Back during the election campaign, a Fiscal Times columnist warned that even as Hillary Clinton played the woman card, more men were being dealt out of American society: A key indicator of American male decline is the gender ratio at U.S. colleges. ...If men are underrepresented in college, they’re overrepresented in prison, the column continued: "At the end of 2014, almost 93% of inmates in state and federal correctional facilities were male. There were over 1.4 million male prisoners compared with 113,000 female inmates." State and local prisons are also overwhelmingly filled by men. It’s not much better at work, with a Bloomberg columnist reporting a "war on men in the workplace." Outside of high-end tech jobs, men have worse employment prospects and are more likely to be laid off. In fact, after the financial crisis, there was talk of a "man-cession" because men were hit so much harder than women. ...If we had a college gap that favored men as much as the existing one favors women, it would be treated as a national crisis. If our girls (instead of our boys) attended schools where teachers were overwhelmingly of the opposite sex, there'd be loud demands for government action. And if there were articles with titles such as The End of Women running in major national magazines, their tone would be alarmist, not smug. Maybe it’s time for a Presidential Task Force on Men and Boys. Before things get worse. And not just in USA |
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| #1 Real men don't whine. Consider the source of this post... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-11-24 13:36 |