Men Are Falling Behind

This interesting article in the Wall Street Journal outlines all the various ways in which "guys are simply falling behind."

The article briefly highlights the "dramatic improvements" that women have made in health, education, and income, and it makes the interesting point that despite having more women in the workplace, more women led families and more sexual equality in general, women have not picked up men's "bad habits" as might have been expected. Instead "men continue to outstrip women in most of the downers of life" at constant or worsening rates.

The lifestyles and habits that worked so well for men in more dangerous times may not be working so well for them in the information age. In every age from the caves right on through the second World War, it worked for men to take big risks, have short attention spans and be driven by ego. These days, those things are more likely to get in the way of doing a good job. Hunting wild boar and hunting through Wikipedia require a different set of skills.
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[Guys Lagging Behind] face more fatal accidents, shortened educational and earning opportunities, higher unemployment, more drug and alcohol dependencies, greater obesity, declining political influence, more heart attacks and shorter lives. The appointment of the third woman Supreme Court Justice will be another crack in the glass ceiling that, for thousands of years, has kept women out of the leadership strata. But unless we also focus on the brewing problems with guys at the other end of the spectrum, we just might be creating a newer and deeper basement that a lot of men may never get out of.