Tackling men’s problems

David Goodhart

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT BOOKabout how rich societies are failing to adapt to the breakdown of the old bread-winner-carer gender division - with many negative consequences, especially for non-elite men. It is especially valuable coming from a self-consciously progressive, pro-feminist British man (writing mainly from a US perspective, having followed his wife’s career to America in 2012), who challenges many of the narratives of “toxic masculinity” and the tendency to see gender inequality only through a female lens. Much of the story he tells, which applies with some variations in Britain and Europe, is a familiar one of men slipping behind women in education, in entry into many professions and increasingly in earnings. Women are now the main breadwinners in 41 per cent of US households, with three in ten wives…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2022

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