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The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.> I think it's a pretty poorly kept open secretThere are lots of book about this. E.g.: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Boys-Surprising-Problems-Educ...
⬐ JohnWhighamRight, but nothing gets done about it. Bring up issues that affect only boys/men nowadays in a public sphere, and you get reflexively labelled as sexist for even having the fucking audacity for caring. This cancerous mentality shows no signs of abating, and it's going to have disastrous consequences in subsequent decades.
Peg Tyre wrote the classic book on this 10 years ago: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Boys-Surprising-Problems-Educ...It hasn't gotten a huge amount of follow-up traction in schools though.
Also The New Jim Crow for a racial perspective that hits black men's employment prospects pretty hard.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblind...
BTW for folks who are concerned that feminist or women don't care about boys and men, these two leasing books are books written by women about the abuse boys and men face.
⬐ ShadowFaxSamAlways appreciate different news sources and ways to further educate myself.>It depends on the job. What you say applies mainly to Twitter-empowered employees at consumer-facing tech companies.
It may depend on the job, one of them falls into the consumer facing tech company bucket (marketing).
However my other job was an analyst role at a Financial Services company which you typically expect to be male dominated and where you might expect this sex discrimination to occur.
It could have been the specific company I worked for (small sample size), but I found it to be a fair and equal opportunity hiring/promoting process at least for those early on in their career.
⬐ throwawayyx96You worked as a financial analyst but yet don't seem to grasp the monumental difference between "women earn 80 percent less than men", which you cited above as the common narrative, and "women earn 80 percent of what men earn" or "women earn 20 percent less than men", which are two accurate descriptions of the common narrative.⬐ ShadowFaxSamI have to laugh at this because I definitely noticed my error after I posted this. I was waiting for someone to comment on the mathematical error.Thank you, yes I understand how percentages work. Tip of the hat to you.