Manhood: Men Adrift
In popular films fewer than a third of the characters who speak are women, and more than three-quarters of the protagonists are men.
.. The economic marginalisation this brings erodes family life. Women who enjoy much greater economic autonomy than their grandmothers did can afford to be correspondingly pickier about spouses, and they are not thrilled by husbands who are just another mouth to feed.
.. For the working class, the economy “has become more amenable to women than to men”, argues Ms Rosin.
.. in 1960 in America 30% of brides gave birth within eight and a half months of the wedding, according to June Carbone of the University of Minnesota and Naomi Cahn of George Washington University.
.. In America pay for men with only a high school diploma fell 21% in real terms between 1979 and 2013
.. There is no sugar-coating this: many blue-collar men no longer have the sort of earnings or prospects that will make women want to marry them.
.. By 2012 there were only 91 employed men for every 100 women in this group.
.. In some American inner cities there are only 50 black men with jobs for every 100 black women, calculates William Julius Wilson of Harvard University.
.. A whopping 50% of births to American women without college degrees are non-marital, but only 6% of births to college graduates are. Similar trends can be seen in Europe.
.. Employers know that young female job applicants are likely to take a lot of time off. None would admit to discriminating, of course, but it is striking that 25% of blue-collar women are on temporary contracts and 50% work part-time—of whom nearly half say they would like to work full-time but cannot find an opening.
.. A similar pattern can be seen in other European countries: men are far more likely than women to vote for protest parties such as Greece’s Golden Dawn, Hungary’s Jobbik, the Netherlands’ PVV and France’s Front National.