Should it surprise that the once male dominated World View of ‘The Economist’ has ‘evolved’ under the female editor @zannymb, a rather notorious Neo-Conservative/Neo-Liberal, in line with the older generation of male editors. In the political present, as presented in this Economist essay, young women seem to be better educated and more ‘liberal’ that their less educated ‘conservative’ potential male partners?
This 3004 word essay is Pop Sociology with Subtitles, and evocative graphs, aimed a young female demographic. Although it is not Helen Gurley Brown, but in fact not many steps away!
Young and cranky
Making America virile again
The solution is offered by Richard Reeves, a liberal scholar, in “Of Boys and Men” and advocated by The Economist.
What neither side has done well is to tackle the underlying problems that are driving young men and women apart. Most important, policymakers could think harder about making schools work for underperforming boys. Mr Reeves suggests hiring more male teachers, and having boys start school a year later, by default, since they mature more slowly than girls do. Also, since “the desegregation of the labour market has been almost entirely one-way”, the state could beef up vocational training to prepare young men for occupations they currently shun, such as those involving health, education or administrative tasks. If such reforms help more boys and men adjust to a changing world, that would benefit both men and women.
It appears that men and women have different rates of reaching ‘maturity’ hardly a new concept. Vocational Training is advocated. I find this puzzling at best. In the latter part of my working life , I was was involved in Home Heath Care as a Service Representative. The staff was both men and women, of almost equal number. My last employment was for a vendor who serviced Surgical Equipment, in which I called upon Hospitals, Surgery Centers to arrange for repairs of various surgical equipment. Is the world of work so different than it was in 2010? I was not looking for a life partner. But I was made highly aware, of the way the highly credential fellow workers, treated me and the other support staff, with a kind of measured tolerance, and in times of high pressure, with near contempt, and gender did not matter!
Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer.
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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