📊 Key Stats & Talking Points

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The quick-fire stat sheet — Reeves PDF annotations and headline numbers.

Talking Points

• Suicides among men has increased by 40% since 2010 (40,000)

  Of Boys and Men _ Why the Modern Male Is S - Reeves, Richard copy, p.12 (file not included in this release)

  The gender gap in college degrees awarded is wider today than it was in the early 1970s, but in the opposite direction.
  The wages of most men are lower today than they were in 1979, while women’s wages have risen across the board.
  One in five fathers are not living with their children.
  Men account for almost three out of four “deaths of despair,” either from a suicide or an overdose.

Of Boys and Men _ Why the Modern Male Is S - Reeves, Richard copy, p.22 (file not included in this release)

girls now account for two-thirds of high schoolers in the top 10%, ranked by GPA, while the proportions are reversed on the bottom rung.

Of Boys and Men _ Why the Modern Male Is S - Reeves, Richard copy, p.27 (file not included in this release)

biggest difference is not in how female and male brains develop, but when. The key point is that the relationship between chronological age and developmental age is very different for girls and boys. From a neuro-scientific perspective, the education system is tilted in favor of girls.

Of Boys and Men _ Why the Modern Male Is S - Reeves, Richard copy, p.15 (file not included in this release)

The Left tells men, “Be more like your sister.” The Right says, “Be more like your father.” Neither invocation is helpful. What is needed is a positive vision of masculinity that is compatible with gender equality

Of Boys and Men _ Why the Modern Male Is S - Reeves, Richard copy, p.126 (file not included in this release)

Manhood is fragile. Womanhood is more robust because it is more determined by women’s specific role in reproduc-tion. As the feminist anthropologist Sherry Ortner writes, “It is simply a fact that proportionately more of woman’s body space, for a greater percentage of her lifetime … is taken up with the natural processes surrounding the reproduction of the species.” Womanhood is defined more by biology, manhood more by social construction. This is why masculinity tends to be more fragile than femininity. When was the last “crisis of femininity”? That’s right: never.

Of Boys and Men _ Why the Modern Male Is S - Reeves, Richard copy, p.99 (file not included in this release)

boys suffer more from family instability, especially from the exit of biological fathers. Boys raised by single parents, especially single mothers, have worse outcomes than girls (including their own sisters) at school and lower rates of college enrollment, in part because of bigger differences in behavioral problems in the classroom. “Boys do especially poorly in broken families,” write Marianne Bertrand and Jessica Pan.

Talking Points (The Boy Crisis)