Well I wouldn’t say an entire generation, but apparently in the urbanite Western Gen Z population, the wage gap has reversed with women earning more than men due to how modern education and gender roles interact.
"for those working full-time between the ages of 16 and 24, the gender pay gap has reversed. This means that for much of Gen Z – including those who have recently left university – women on average are slightly higher paid than men. In later life, this is expected to reverse and widen in favour of men, a gap that is usually attributed to greater male participation in higher-paying fields and the “motherhood penalty”, which reflects the disproportionate share of childcare undertaken by women. "
The trends of children do not reflect the reality of adulthood employment and social constructs. This has been the case for a while now.
The problem I see with this line of reasoning is, among other things, is that just telling these young men to suck it up won’t cut it.
The current layoff tsunami is hurting men more than women since male-dominated fields are more affected. We live in “unprecedented times”, promises are kinda worthless.
These men are expected to marry and father children today, and find mates in a society that ties their value to their salary. According to data from dating apps, that isn’t happening, women are still marrying up, to older men, and this cohort of men is just getting shut out.
But what they can do and will do in the next few years is vote for people who present a solution to them for today, instead of marginalizing their problem.
Today, that’s fuckheads like Trump and Tate.
So yeah, we can argue with them or listen to them. My point is if we as a society make an effort to listen to the ones that try to speak to us, we can get them out of this hole.
Or if we just go and argue that their problems don’t matter as much, there will just be more of them in crisis and they will eventually start murdering people that argue with them today if they get told that’s their way out.
"for those working full-time between the ages of 16 and 24, the gender pay gap has reversed. This means that for much of Gen Z – including those who have recently left university – women on average are slightly higher paid than men. In later life, this is expected to reverse and widen in favour of men, a gap that is usually attributed to greater male participation in higher-paying fields and the “motherhood penalty”, which reflects the disproportionate share of childcare undertaken by women. "
The trends of children do not reflect the reality of adulthood employment and social constructs. This has been the case for a while now.
The problem I see with this line of reasoning is, among other things, is that just telling these young men to suck it up won’t cut it.
The current layoff tsunami is hurting men more than women since male-dominated fields are more affected. We live in “unprecedented times”, promises are kinda worthless.
These men are expected to marry and father children today, and find mates in a society that ties their value to their salary. According to data from dating apps, that isn’t happening, women are still marrying up, to older men, and this cohort of men is just getting shut out.
But what they can do and will do in the next few years is vote for people who present a solution to them for today, instead of marginalizing their problem.
Today, that’s fuckheads like Trump and Tate.
So yeah, we can argue with them or listen to them. My point is if we as a society make an effort to listen to the ones that try to speak to us, we can get them out of this hole.
Or if we just go and argue that their problems don’t matter as much, there will just be more of them in crisis and they will eventually start murdering people that argue with them today if they get told that’s their way out.