Why Millions of Men Are Checking Out of Work and Family Life
By Post Editorial Board | Commentary,.New York Post
For only the third time in US history, more women are working than men — and this profoundly abnormal state of affairs could become the new normal if we doesn’t face this slow-moving social disaster.
Crucially, the other two times were both this century — after the 2008 financial meltdown and the 2020 lockdowns, and now it’s happening without any obvious crisis to explain it.
By far the most likely explanation: We’ve all but lost most clear paths toward responsible manhood.
The economy’s long shift from industrial to service-sector employment is one key reason men have increasingly dropped out of the workforce entirely starting in the mid-1960s.
Meanwhile, we’ve let soc...