Monday, December 19, 2022
Make Skilled Trades Sexy Again
The United States is the midst of a crisis of masculinity. According to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, men without four-year college degrees, ages 25 to 54, have left and continue to leave the workforce in record high numbers. One of the reasons they’re leaving involves their perceived social status relative to men of similar age in possession of a college degree. For more than 40 years, non-college-educated men have seen their weekly earnings fall some 17 percent; at the same time, college-educated men have seen theirs rise by 20 percent, adjusting for inflation. Depleted salaries have fed a perceived decline in social status, prompting an increasing number of men to leave the workforce entirely.
