If men are underrepresented in college, they’re overrepresented in prison, the column continued: “At the end of 2014, almost 93% of inmates in state and federal correctional facilities were male. There were over 1.4 million male prisoners compared with 113,000 female inmates.” State and local prisons are also overwhelmingly filled by men.
It’s not much better at work, with a Bloomberg columnist reporting a “war on men in the workplace.” Outside of high-end tech jobs, men have worse employment prospects and are more likely to be laid off. In fact, after the financial crisis, there was talk of a “man-cession” because men were hit so much harder than women.
One thing that would help is more jobs. Ironically, this is something that President Obama tried to provide early in his administration, pushing for infrastructure jobs only to have his program shot down by feminists who were upset that most of the jobs would have gone to men. They complained, Obama gave in, and much of the money was reprogrammed out of construction and into social services. As Christina Hoff Sommers reported in 2009:
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