“We can be passionate about women’s rights and compassionate toward vulnerable boys and men.” And the problems of boys and men falling behind - in absolute terms as well as relative to women - are real and serious. “We can hold two thoughts in our head at once,” he writes in his new book. But he also contends with those on the left who believe that focusing on men’s problems distracts from the challenges still faced by girls and women. In his new book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, Reeves examines the difficulties that millions of boys and men are having in school, at work, and in the family.Īs an advocate for gender equality, who has devoted considerable study to closing the pay gap for women, Reeves rejects right-wing calls to repeal feminism. But in recent years, he has become concerned about a less-scrutinized axis of inequality: the myriad ways in which boys and men are falling behind girls and women educationally, economically, and on many indicators of social well-being. Reeves, a scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., is internationally recognized for his scholarship on equality of opportunity, with a focus on divisions of social class and race.
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