#537 - Richard Reeves - Does Anyone Care About Men's Struggles?

Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 6 a.m.

Richard V. Reeves is a writer, scholar and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.\nMen are falling behind in education, employment and family life. They're underachieving in school, dropping out of the labour market and being less useful around the house more than ever. And this isn't simply cultural as it's happening all over the world, the problem is deeper than that - it's structural.\nExpect to learn why there are twice as many female fighter pilots compared with male kindergarten teachers, why a male needs to be 24 to have the same impulse control as a 10 year old girl, where the term toxic masculinity actually came from, whether a man's gain is actually woman's loss, the problem of promoting men's issues in the press and much more...\nSponsors:\nGet 7 days free access and 25% discount from Blinkist at https://blinkist.com/modernwisdom (use code\xa0MODERNWISDOM)\nGet 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 4.0 at https://www.manscaped.com/ (use code MODERNWISDOM)\nGet 15% discount on all VERSO\u2019s products at https://ver.so/modernwisdom (use code: MW15)\nExtra Stuff:\nBuy Of Boys & Men - https://amzn.to/3eb6so6\xa0\nFollow Richard on Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/richardvreeves\xa0\nGet my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die \u2192 https://chriswillx.com/books/\nTo support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom\n-\nGet in touch.\nInstagram:\xa0https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx\nTwitter:\xa0https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast\nEmail: https://chriswillx.com/contact/\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices