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1/ Meet our Advisory Board
We're proud to present a distinguished group of thought leaders, researchers, authors, and more committed to addressing the pressing challenges facing boys and men in the U.S.
Learn more here:
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We're the American Institute for Boys and Men, a nonpartisan research organization launched in 2023 by
@richardvreeves
. We believe addressing the challenges for boys and men today is NOT a zero sum game! Learn more about the impetus for our work at .
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Boys’ reported depression rates increased by 161%, slightly more than the 145% increase in girls, highlighting a substantial shift since 2010. Read the full commentary by Jonathan Haidt:
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#maleteachers
are missing.
Boys are less likely to see someone who looks like them in the classroom, especially boys of color.
Read more about these disparities in our latest research brief:
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Boys' reported depression rates have surged by 161%, slightly surpassing the 145% increase in girls since 2010.
Our youth is going through a mental health epidemic.
What could be the cause? What solutions are there?
@JonHaidt
discusses these questions and more in his new book,
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As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to a close, an uncomfortable but important topic must be addressed.
Male suicide is a public health crisis. Recognizing this is the first step in dealing with it.
#MentalHealthAwareness
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Check out this research by
@elisajacome
! Her work suggests that "expanding Medicaid eligibility to low-income young men is a cost-effective crime-reduction policy"
Can you guess what happens when young men are kicked off Medicaid?
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They are more likely to commit a crime
Why?
In part, because they lose mental health services
"expanding Medicaid eligibility ...is a cost-effective crime-reduction policy"
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1/ We have a new report out on the state of working-class men in America. Here are some key findings:
#workingclass
#labor
#laborday
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"Let’s stop telling teen boys they are toxic."
@CatherineECarr
wants us to reconsider how we treat boys, promoting understanding and open dialogue instead of labeling them as toxic.
Read more in our latest commentary:
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Our inaugural policy brief comes from Matt Darling
@besttrousers
of the
@NiskanenCenter
and focuses on how the current unemployment insurance system disproportionately reduces young men’s hiring prospects.
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(1/7) It’s
#InternationalMensDay
– we believe that healthier men finding purpose in the 21st century means a healthier world. Today, AIBM is releasing our first research brief to raise awareness on a key and challenging aspect of men’s health: male suicide.
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Dads matter.
Fathers are increasingly involved in their children's lives and have a unique impact on their social, emotional, and cognitive development.
Read our latest research on fathers:
#fathersday
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As political polarization is on the rise among young men and women,
@RichardvReeves
advocates for the need to pay more attention to young men.
Read the full commentary:
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In the US, men are now more likely than women to say that it is important for them to get married.
Watch the full podcast conversation between
@RichardvReeves
and
@StevenBartlett
on The Diary Of A CEO:
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We need to get the facts straight on the issues of boys and men.
The conversations surrounding boys and men have been steered by poor evidence and opinions. AIBM aims to provide research that can create a better foundation for constructive conversation and policy around the
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1/ We just released a new research brief “Where are the men? Male Representation in Social Work and Psychology”, which takes a deep dive into the declining share of men working in mental health professions.
Check it out here:
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Women are much more likely to initiate divorce.
@RichardvReeves
: Women's economic empowerment brings about both benefits and drawbacks. While it gives women more independence in their relationships, it can also greatly impact men's lives.
Watch:
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Society sometimes views boys and men as less competent.
@ProfEmilyOster
argues that this belief can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, reinforcing gendered competence gaps in both children and adults.
Watch the full conversation with
@RichardvReeves
:
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6 questions on boys and men
Question
#1
: How can we advocate for boys and men while recognizing lingering inequalities?
Richard V. Reeves talks about lingering gender inequalities while unveiling his findings that boys and men need support in key areas.
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If you didn't know that boys are struggling in our education system today, you need to see AIBM President Richard Reeves' Ted Talk on "How to solve the education crisis for boys and men", which includes some immediate solutions:
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1/ We just released a new research brief “Missing Misters: Gender Diversity among Teachers”. Fewer than 1 in 4 teachers are men, and this brief examines their representation across classrooms, race, and place.
Check it out:
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From 1999-2010 the rise in male suicide was driven primarily by middle-aged men, but now things have changed.
Since 2010, young men have experienced some of the largest increases in suicides in the past few decades.
Watch:
#MensHealthMonth
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"A world of floundering men, is very difficult to imagine as a world of flourishing women." -
@RichardvReeves
Watch "Why the political worldviews of young men and women are increasingly diverging" by
@dwnews
:
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Boys are struggling in education.
They could benefit from better access to technical high schools, more male teachers, and the practice of "Redshirting".
@RichardvReeves
goes into detail in our latest research summary:
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Male college enrollment and completion rates have dropped significantly in the last half century.
Check out our latest research brief on male college enrollment and completion:
Men's share of Bachelor's degrees dropped from 57% in 1970 to 42% in 2021,
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1/ Nearly half of Gen Z men aren’t dating.
@dcoxpolls
from
@AEI
explains how technology, parenting, and cultural shifts are changing the way the youth view relationships.
Read more in our latest commentary:
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New Analysis:
Men make up only 42% of college graduates. Our latest research brief examines the trends in male higher educational achievement, focusing on their lower enrollment and completion rates. These gaps hold across most institution types and racial groups, but are
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This week, we had the amazing chance to come together with our great team in Charlotte, North Carolina.
It was our third in-person meeting, where we had some great discussions on new research, commentaries, videos, and more. We are excited about AIBM's future and eager to
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"More troubling is the idea that the boys feel like they are somehow “bad” simply as a function of being male."
Read our commentary by
@CatherineE
:
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Are we Failing Our Boys and Men?
This panel was a great discussion at the
@aspenideas
Festival, and featured
@SRuhle
,
@RichardvReeves
,
@StrautMike
, and
@GovWesMoore
. They discussed male loneliness, academic challenges, and evolving gender norms.
#aspenideas
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1/9 Are Our Educational Systems Failing Boys?
Exploring key findings and solutions from Dan Goldhaber and Stephanie Liddle’s analysis of Educational Achievement and Progression by Gender in Washington.
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Should we start redshirting boys?
Richard Reeves makes the case for why boys would benefit from starting school one year later than girls. This clip is from “The Problems of Boys and Men?”.
Watch the full video:
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The problems of boys and men are often overlooked.
@RichardvReeves
emphasizes that although male issues may have been brought to attention, they have not received enough focus. This is what inspired him to launch AIBM.
Listen to the full conversation with
@ProfEmilyOster
on
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Men make up a large majority of suicides and their suicide rates have been increasing in recent decades.
Today, men are four times more likely than women to die by suicide but ten percentage points less likely than women to access mental health care.
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6 Facts on Men's Health
As
#MensHealthMonth
comes to an end, we want more people to be aware of some of the disparities surrounding the well-being of men.
🔻 Men die more than five years earlier than women
🔻 COVID-19 took 650,000 men's lives
🔻 The suicide rate is four times
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No, young men are not turning away from gender equality
"Based on our reading of the GSS data, there is no strong evidence of weakening support for the core principle of gender equality among men, including young men."
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Young men are dating less than ever before.
@dcoxpolls
argues that male friendship does not equip men for healthy romantic relationships.
Read our latest commentary on Gen Z's Romance Gap:
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Watch AIBM President
@RichardvReeves
discuss male isolation on
@NewsHour
.
Learn more about the impacts of isolation in our latest research brief on male suicide:
American men are stuck in what has been dubbed a friendship recession — with 20% of single men now saying they don't have any close friends.
More than half of all men report feeling unsatisfied with the size of their friend groups.
Watch part of
@GeoffRBennett
's report.
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Does having male teachers impact the academic performance of male students?
Our analysis suggests that it may make a difference, but more research is needed.
Learn more in our latest research brief:
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In the construction industry where roughly 9 in 10 employees are men (
@BLS_gov
), the suicide rate is 56 per 100,000 for males (
@CDCgov
), 3 times the rate of the general population.
@Bechtel
and
@afspnational
have formed a partnership to help save lives in the construction
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Given the mental health needs of adolescents, male and female, the low share of male students in the school psychology field is especially troubling.
Read the full research brief:
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Male suffering presents itself in forms that aren't always clear, which may lead people to overlook it in research on their wellbeing.
@LDamour
and
@RichardvReeves
discuss this and more in our latest video:
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@RichardvReeves
: Young men in the U.S. are indeed more hostile to feminism than older men, according to a 2023 Equimundo survey. But this does not seem to equate with opposition to the basic ideal of equal opportunities by gender. So what’s going on? I think a few things are
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The U.S. has placed a greater financial emphasis on a university degree than on apprenticeships by 1000:1. Men, and in particular young men, may benefit substantially from increased funding in apprenticeship programs.
Read the full commentary here:
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We need a productive conversation about boyhood/manhood. Without it, the vacuum is being filled by those who espouse dogmatic and dangerous notions of being a man.
We're publishing on the range of the roles men can inhabit in 2023.
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"The Democrats try to win as the women's party, and the Republicans try to win as the men's party. That's terrible for all sorts of reasons." -
@RichardvReeves
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A big thank you to
@CEDR_US
and Stephani Liddle for analyzing the gender gaps in educational achievement and progression in Washington.
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@RachelKleinfeld
4/7 Masculinity is being weaponized to drive men towards extremism. Globally, men exhibit higher voting rates for radical parties.
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Male employment rate has dropped over the decades.
Matt Darling
@besttrousers
from
@NiskanenCenter
proposes improving Earned Income Tax Credit and addressing criminal records, disabilities, and drug addictions to help men re-enter the workforce.
Read:
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Congratulations
@RichardvReeves
!
1/8 I'm honored to have been chosen by
@melindagates
to invest $20m
@pivotalventures
to promote gender equality. This is an important moment. It sends a powerful and timely message that the gender equality movement can & should include boys and men. 🧵
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There's a scarcity of
#maleteachers
.
It's rare for boys to see their likeness in the classroom, especially for boys of color.
Discover these disparities in detail in our newest research brief: .
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Male Suicide: Patterns and Recent Trends is a critical read for mental health providers, teachers and anyone who plays a mentorship role in the life of a boy or man.
With the facts, we can collectively address the challenges associated with this crisis.
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8/9 Math Score Dynamics: Math score gaps are small in third grade but expand by 10th grade. Boys overrepresented at both ends of the spectrum.
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Since the 1960s, fathers have more than doubled the time they spend with their children. As moms entered the workforce, dads stepped up—increasingly balancing work, household, and childcare duties.
Read "Dads Rock: The Evidence":
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Love is not in the air for many young people this Valentine's Day.
Read "Gen Z’s Romance Gap: Why Nearly Half of Young Men Aren’t Dating" by
@dcoxpolls
:
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Improving the gender balance of the teaching profession will be a challenge.
Since 1988, the share of male teachers has fallen from an already low 30%, to 23% today.
Read our latest research brief on gender diversity among teachers:
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(5/6) Black boys and men: Black boys and men face systemic disadvantages across education and employment.
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AIBM President
@RichardvReeves
and UW Tacoma Chancellor Sheila Edwards Lange discussed the data and other trends in Washington - check out our factsheet
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@dcoxpolls
@AEI
3/ Among Gen Z men today, nearly half (44%) have reported no romantic relationship experience during their teen years, which was true for only 20% of baby boomers.
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New dads often struggle due to an experience gap, not an ability gap. Supporting and encouraging learning can help close this competence gap and lead to more equal roles.
Read more in our latest commentary by
@ProfEmilyOster
:
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(6/6) Fatherhood: As family dynamics evolve, the role of fathers remains crucial. However, cultural expectations lag behind, resulting in a "dad deficit."
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@besttrousers
@NiskanenCenter
And indeed men are much more likely to become unemployed at any given point than women - this could be due to risk-taking or lack of maturity. An experience rating system actively encourages employers to avoid these workers who may be most in need of experiences to grow.
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Meet the members of our board:
Ted Gayer,
@ChristineEmba
,
@aliceshob
,
@frederickjriley
and
@DBrianCollier
Our board comes from a broad range of backgrounds and expertise, ready to tackle the challenges facing boys and men.
Read their full bios:
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The number of men receiving psychology degrees has variably declined or flattened since the 1970s, despite growth in the field.
Read the full research brief:
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Happy
#FathersDay
to all the amazing dads out there!
In our latest research we go over how fathers parent, often engaging in rough-and-tumble play and challenging their kids in ways that foster resilience and better problem-solving skills.
Read more:
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College enrollment gender gaps on college campuses have been steadily widening since the 1980s.
Read more here:
#highereducation
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“…The U.S. has lagged far behind other developed countries–countries like Germany and Switzerland ... in creating apprenticeships. In these countries, apprentices constitute about 2.5-3.0% of the labor force, or about 10 times the U.S. rate. “
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8/ The lack of male social workers and psychologists presents a serious challenge to mental health service delivery, and we need more policy conversation and solutions - read the full brief for more detail and continue to follow along with our work for more!
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As
@Movember
comes to an end, we encourage you to check out their list of resources dedicated to helping men in need.
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There has been a noteworthy decrease in male representation in mental health professions. The graph showcases the drop in share of men in psychology and social work.
You can read more about it in our latest research brief: .
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"...if roughly half the population’s mental health is under-regarded and consequently under-addressed, that’s bad for everyone. We are doing a better job of noticing the emotional distress of our teen girls. It is time to pay the same attention to our teen boys."
Check out our
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We’re hiring! We are looking for a Research Associate to lead to analysis on the challenges and opportunities faced by boys and men in America today. (1/5)
Apply today:
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New analysis presented by Dan Goldhaber was striking
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Why fewer young men are choosing to pursue college degrees
"College enrollment among young Americans has been declining over the past decade. That decrease is mostly driven by fewer young men pursuing degrees. A Pew Research study finds about one million fewer young men now
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Explore the data on male suicides by state for 2022.
See AIBM’s interactive map and table to view data on provisional male suicide rates by age for each state in 2022.
To view the interactive tools, go to:
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1/7 Read
@RachelKleinfeld
's latest piece titled: To Save Democracy, Help Men
Read the full commentary here:
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Suicide Rates Are Now Higher Among Young Adults Than the Middle-Aged
Read the full article:
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Equimundo survey: Young men without college degrees report not having purpose in life at alarmingly high rates.
@RachelKleinfeld
gets into the facts:
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1/6 As we kick off
#WomensHistoryMonth
the AIBM team is sending appreciation to some of our sister orgs working on behalf of girls and women. For example,
@IWPResearch
's work on women in manufacturing
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The myth of male incompetence in household tasks and parenting affects societal expectations.
Our latest commentary by
@ProfEmilyOster
explores how these perceptions develop and how they can be changed.
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1/ This
#MensHealthWeek
, we highlight disparities in men's health outcomes & the limited public health goals aimed at addressing these issues. There is a clear need for more research and healthcare initiatives to improve men's health.
#MensHealthMonth
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VICE News Presents: Searching for Masculinity
This new documentary by
@VICE
looks into modern masculinity and the new identity crisis facing men today.
Watch the full documentary, featuring AIBM President,
@RichardvReeves
:
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@RichardvReeves
: "Boys now lag behind girls and men lag behind women at almost every level of education. That's true in nearly every rich economy."
👦 Why the UK risks consigning its next generation of men to life’s scrapheap.
Before children even step a foot inside the classroom, boys are already behind. Find out why here ⬇️
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Thank you
@JenSiebelNewsom
! We agree. And our President
@RichardvReeves
and the AIBM team strongly believes in the critical work of the
@surgeon_general
. Here's the full interview on loneliness, friendship and mental health.
So perfectly said
@RichardvReeves
.
Addictive technology, excessive time online, and the pay-to-play model have increased loneliness and social isolation among children.
Through
@CAgovernor
’s Advisory Council on Physical Fitness and Mental Well-being, we’re building a more
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(5/7) Where is this increase coming from? We find that middle aged men underwent a surge in the 2000s, but since 2010, almost all the rise has been among young men.
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@JonHaidt
piece on our site highlights a clear surge in depressive episodes across the board for youth. Girls reporting increased more by the numbers while boys rose by a greater proportion. There are mental health challenges to address for both.
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2/ Men make up a vanishingly small share of mental health professions: In 2023, only 18% of social workers and 20% of psychologists are male, down from 38% and 68% in 1968.
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6 questions on boys and men
Question
#6
: When do boys become men in today’s world?
Richard Reeves opens the discussion on what marks the entrance into manhood. He argues that there isn’t an obvious answer today, but it is a question that we need to ask,
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In “About The Boys,”
@CatherineECarr
provides a platform for teenage boys to discuss topics like sex, consent, friendship, masculinity, social media, and school. The series emphasizes the importance of creating safe spaces for boys to express their thoughts and feelings.
Watch
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Check out AIBM President
@RichardvReeves
' piece in Education Next highlighting some of the findings from our new research brief.
"It is no secret that boys and men are lagging girls and women in schools and colleges. In the average school district, boys are now about a grade level behind girls in literacy."
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7/ Working-class men are much more likely to die across age groups, from workplace injuries, COVID-19, cardiovascular disease, and other causes. Young working-class men are more likely to die than older, non-working-class men.
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Read
@RichardvReeves
' book reviews of "BoyMom" by Ruth Whipman and "Rebles WIth a Cause" by Niobe Way" in
@WSJ
:
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Read our latest commentary by Richard Reeves and Will Secker discussing the need for more apprenticeships in the U.S.:
Good jobs change lives.
#Apprenticeships
can get you started. Ariel Cruz shares how an apprenticeship set him on the road to career success.
#NAW2023
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In February 2023, the media picked up on the findings of an alarming CDC report on girls' mental health in 2021.
57% of teenage girls felt sad or hopeless, compared to 29% of boys, and girls were twice as likely to say they considered or attempted suicide. Yet, adolescent boys
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