The effect of gender disparities on men — CBS Sunday Morning, 2023, 8:44 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1GxuNceLj4
Despite the patriarchal structure of our society, young men seem to be struggling compared to young women. Women are now 15 percentage points more likely to achieve a bachelor’s degree compared to men, almost the inverse of how it was when Title IX was created to boost gender equality on campuses in 1972. This gender disparity starts in early education, and there is no consensus as to exactly why boys are falling behind girls in academic achievement. Men are also dropping out of the labor force, report higher rates of binge drinking, and experience more suicides than women. Yet it is controversial to label this as a male crisis since men enjoy many privileges in our patriarchal society. Nonetheless, boys and men are clearly struggling, and we should devote more attention and research to this phenomenon.
Why do you think boys and men are struggling today? Since men are now underrepresented on campuses, is it appropriate to explicitly create initiatives to recruit and retain more male students?
From the video’s description: In 1972, when Title IX was passed to help improve gender equality on campus, men were 13% more likely to get an undergraduate degree than women. Today, it's women who are 15% more likely to get a BA than men. That's just one of the startling statistics revealing how millions of young men today are struggling to understand how or where they fit in. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves about his new initiative, the American Institute for Boys and Men; with students at the University of Vermont, where women make up 62% of this year's freshman class; and with Kalamazoo Promise in Michigan, a scholarship program reaching out to young men who haven't been taking advantage of the help being offered towards higher education.