What is manliness? It seems that this is a question alot of me nare asking themselves according to 'The descentof men' by Dan Kindlon. Kindlon has done studies on the attitudes of adolescent girls and boys in today society and one thing is very clear. A boy's view on what is 'manly' will be drastically changing in the next decades. A higher emphasis will be placed on being a good and attentive father, spending more or almost all their thime with their children by becoming stay at home dads (Kindlon 624-625).
Because educated women have began to hold and be placed in jobs that were formerly mostly taken by men in the past many men are finding new ways to go through life, some take the easy way out and others egarly welcome the role of care-taker to their home and children when in the past this may have meant 'failure' in everyday life or loss of manly pride.
Even in our own college we are 70% female. Women are taking up most spaces in college education and complete these educations with higher degrees then their male counterparts. Girls in todays society are encouraged to be vibrant and well educated. It remains to see if Kindlon's predictions will be true, but all I can say is Kindlon's future doesn't seem to bad.
Because educated women have began to hold and be placed in jobs that were formerly mostly taken by men in the past many men are finding new ways to go through life, some take the easy way out and others egarly welcome the role of care-taker to their home and children when in the past this may have meant 'failure' in everyday life or loss of manly pride.
Even in our own college we are 70% female. Women are taking up most spaces in college education and complete these educations with higher degrees then their male counterparts. Girls in todays society are encouraged to be vibrant and well educated. It remains to see if Kindlon's predictions will be true, but all I can say is Kindlon's future doesn't seem to bad.
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