• healthetank@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Interesting article

    I especially liked that they raised point like the fact that despite the fact that men earn more on average and make up more of the top CEO/Board Members spots, that those things don’t help the bottom segment of boys who are left behind in school and left unsupported.

    Their program to try and pull those teens back into post secondary is helpful and I’d be excited to see their long term impacts

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    At first glance one might have thought this was an all-women’s college – 62% of this year’s class are women, a gender gap that has earned Burlington, Vt., a nickname: Girlington.

    “We have a bigger gender gap today than we did when we passed laws to help women and girls; it’s just flipped,” said Richard Reeves, a former Brookings Institution senior fellow.

    Those numbers leave UVM students Sarah Wood and Maxine Flordeliza pretty skeptical that men are barely treading water.

    Von Washington Jr., executive director of community relations with The Kalamazoo Promise in Michigan, said, "Before it used to be, you graduated high school, ‘Goodbye, you’re on your own.’

    UVM junior Lucas Roemer doesn’t see it as a sort of affirmative action – putting the finger on the scale for men.

    It’s the kind of reaction to the very real problems of boys and men that Richard Reeves says needs to be the rule, and not the exception: "This is not a made-up crisis of masculinity.


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