No, 15 times is absurd. But they do exceed male earnings by a healthy margin by virtue of the fact that they completely dominate the highest earning fields.
And pointing to a few men who achieve a lot is nice, but that ignores the disribution throughout the curve. Add in the hard FACT that traditional high paying jobs for men are drying up as our nation is stripped of manufacturing, mining, logging, heavy construction, drilling, and transportation.
The jobs left behind in this economy are in the feminine fields. Medicine, Law, management, HR, consumer banking, etc,,
Ask around about pharmaceutical reps jobs and see who gets those. And dont forget one of the fastest growing of all career fields, GOVERNMENT at all levels. You might not have heard, but that field is rabidly anti-male, yet clamors for women with “a degree” (anything will do).
Men today succeed two ways, by getting into trades that have been neglected, (plumbing, A/C and Heating, Electrician, Mechanic,,) and by running a risk to open their own business.
Anyway, this point is chasing a rabbit. The main part of the article is wrong. Men are in the state they are, mostly because family law is horrendously skewed against them. Combine that with the mercenary mentality of most young US women,,, and marriage is a very bad risk for a young man today. But this article casts everything as perfect women, and immature men. Trite,,
Anyway, this point is chasing a rabbit. The main part of the article is wrong. Men are in the state they are, mostly because family law is horrendously skewed against them. Combine that with the mercenary mentality of most young US women,,, and marriage is a very bad risk for a young man today. But this article casts everything as perfect women, and immature men.
Before I posted about this article I thought I would look through the comments to find out if anyone would post about what I thought was a ‘biggie’ in the reasons why so many young men are opting out of marriage. Yours mostly fits.
A man today in America be he a young man or an old man takes a HUGE leap of faith when they decide to get married. Marriage today can be a walk though a never-ending minefield. Add on the extra’s of children in a marriage and your chances of blowing up increase exponentially.
Now, I believe in marriage and am now in a very happy one. It’s not perfect but nothing is you know. You might think it’s strange but one of the things that helps us out is that the TV isn’t on with shows that depict the Husband and or the parents are idiots and that the wife and/or children are perfect or in most cases just so much smarter than the husband figure.
Unfortunately for most men in the U.S. that ‘Idiot Box’ is out there blaring it’s message all day and night long. The viewer’s can’t help but be influenced by that sort of drivel.
And a young man today? Well I think they are still as smart as they used to be. They just haven’t found their way into analyzing what’s is going on with their lives in relation to women. They just “know” that it’s better to be single than to put themselves in a situation where they are now the “Dumb ass/Idiot/Easily Manipulated Husband” they have been seeing on the TV most of their lives. Once they realize that on an Intellectual basis as well as a Emotional basis. Then they know that if they are going to get married then they need to find a woman who also understands that that TV stereotype of Husbands is not just false but Deadly-to-a-Happy-Marriage false.