Richard V. Reeves: Male inequality (15 minute video)

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10. I'd have to give it an extremely qualified yes and no

Yes because men are the ones who have taken economic changes since 1969 on the chin, and that had absolutely nothing to dio with the gains made by some women in academia and some professions. This guy is WAY off base there, it wasn't so long ago that the handful of women who managed to surmount the barriers erected by men and get into universities were denied degrees, even though most of them had completed the work and exams with distinction, keeping them from the professions they'd aspired to.

It wasn't until the civil rights bills were passed in the 1960s that women were able to open bank accounts, rent apartments, tet credit cards or apply for loans, and do so many of the things we needed to do to run our own lives if Prince Charming failed to turn up.

There is just no comparison between what men and women have had to face. However, instead of complaining about the past, it's time to look at the present, to see who was behind the horrific economic changes that beggared the bottom 75% or so, the non academically talented people whose work is undervalued or unvalued. Then we have to change it and that will take all of us, men and women, and questions of who gets to dominate whom should not ever be asked.