• education (young men are getting less of it than young women)
• What is going on?
• experience (advanced countries have become less sexist, and men and women experience this differently)
• echo chambers (social media aggravate polarisation)
• education
• ten percentage points more young women than men earn a bachelor’s degree.
• dating scene
• Gen Z women, unlike older women, are dramatically more likely than their male peers to describe themselves as LGBT (31% to 16%)
• In a recent study, they found that young European men are especially likely to resent women (and feel that feminism has gone too far) if unemployment has recently risen in their area, and if they perceive their society’s institutions to be unfair. Anti-feminist views, they add, are a fair predictor of right-wing authoritarian ones.
• In some countries, divorce courts tend to favour the mother in child-custody disputes
• Men enter the labour market earlier and die younger, but the retirement age for women in rich countries is on average slightly lower. In Poland it is five years lower
• Another factor that particularly affects young men is conscription
• When homogenous groups of like-minded people discuss an issue, they tend to become more extreme, as individuals vie for affirmation by restating the in-group’s core position in ever-stronger terms, and denouncing those who dispute it.
• Social media
• algorithms hook users with content that terrifies or infuriates, making the world seem both more frightening and more unjust than it is.
• The political left has done a fair job of persuading women that it cares about their problems. But it has not figured out how to talk to men,
• Progressives often assume “that gender inequality can only run one way, that is, to the disadvantage of women”. And they apply labels like “toxic masculinity” so indiscriminately as to suggest that there is something intrinsically wrong with being male. Rather than drawing immature boys and men into a dialogue about their behaviour, this “is much more likely to send them to the online manosphere, where they will be reassured they did nothing wrong and that liberals are out to get them”.

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