Exactly what is driving the trend is manifold, but increases in healthcare, education and hospitality jobs — industries dominated by women — compared to shrinking jobs in the male-dominated tech, business, and manufacturing worlds appear to be playing a sizable role, Ullrich said.
“The research does not show that men are caregiving at higher levels,” Ullrich said. “It certainly has become more common for men to stay at home with children than it was 20 years ago, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s not like there’s some big wave of that. It really is a decline in just work activity.”
That research was published in the Journal of Political Economy in 2017 and found that young men spend about 70% of their off-work hours playing video games, according to Fortune.
“All sorts of things, whether it’s the opioid epidemic, or depression or disability are all hitting men harder,” Ullrich said. “Young adult men are much more likely to be living with their parents than young adult women.”
Since Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025, the US economy has added 468,000 payroll jobs due to the enormous growth of healthcare and education, according to Wolfers.
Of those, 86% — or 403,000 of the jobs went to women — with only 65,000 going to men, the data shows.
Woof, those are incredibly rough numbers for men in the US. I wonder how that will change their voting records as we move forward - I wonder if young men who overwhelmingly voted for Trump are starting to feel disillusioned?
Young men have been disillusioned for the better part of three decades. Why do you think they voted for the first guy offering to fix their problems instead of ignoring them and abusing them on a systemic level?
I understand why they voted for him in the first place. I’m wondering if there’s going to be a reckoning for things not only improving, but drastically becoming worse.
Many are likely to vote R even harder, honestly. Unless they are really shown that Democrats are willing to work for them, too. And honestly, it’s not always quite so clear that’s the case, at least in certain online spaces.
I think they were feeling disillusioned well before Trump.
To me, the whole attitude started back in the late 90s and early ‘00s when groups like Limp Bizkit took off and “The Real Slim Shady” was huge. That attitude feels like the genesis of how these guys act.
ETA: I’m watching Ben Folds’ “Rockin’ the Suburbs” and it’s exactly that vibe
I think I saw some video in which some guy tries to make the case that the horrible Woodstock 99 was foreshadowing for what came after…I tried to find it but couldn’t find it just now.
I really tried to avoid most of that music at the time, if I’m to be honest. I went to Woodstock 94 and it was alright (most everyone you talked to during and after the concert was very nonplussed about how commercial it all was) but 99 looked like hell on Earth and I’m sure glad I did not go…
Woof, those are incredibly rough numbers for men in the US. I wonder how that will change their voting records as we move forward - I wonder if young men who overwhelmingly voted for Trump are starting to feel disillusioned?
Young men have been disillusioned for the better part of three decades. Why do you think they voted for the first guy offering to fix their problems instead of ignoring them and abusing them on a systemic level?
Young men voted for Trump at lower rates than white women.
I understand why they voted for him in the first place. I’m wondering if there’s going to be a reckoning for things not only improving, but drastically becoming worse.
Many are likely to vote R even harder, honestly. Unless they are really shown that Democrats are willing to work for them, too. And honestly, it’s not always quite so clear that’s the case, at least in certain online spaces.
I think they were feeling disillusioned well before Trump.
To me, the whole attitude started back in the late 90s and early ‘00s when groups like Limp Bizkit took off and “The Real Slim Shady” was huge. That attitude feels like the genesis of how these guys act.
ETA: I’m watching Ben Folds’ “Rockin’ the Suburbs” and it’s exactly that vibe
I think I saw some video in which some guy tries to make the case that the horrible Woodstock 99 was foreshadowing for what came after…I tried to find it but couldn’t find it just now.
I really tried to avoid most of that music at the time, if I’m to be honest. I went to Woodstock 94 and it was alright (most everyone you talked to during and after the concert was very nonplussed about how commercial it all was) but 99 looked like hell on Earth and I’m sure glad I did not go…