Stephanie Coontz has an excellent essay in the New York Times Sunday Review, "The Myth of Male Decline," which includes some numbers from this blog and my upcoming review of Hanna Rosin's The End of Men.
Here's the figure they made from the numbers I provided:
The top half is from this post, using Bureau of Labor Statistics data from this year.
For any of you who have been brave/unfortunate enough to read Hanna Rosin's Tour de Bullshit "The End of Men", here's a breath of fresh air - a solid, academic debunking of the egregious and often factually inaccurate claims made within its pages. Check it out. Also check out the rest of this blogger's posts on the subject which, as you'll no doubt see, he has helpfully grouped under the 'Hanna Rosin' tag on his page. Seriously. Read it all.
