The New American Man Doesnt Look Like His Father Npr

This is the first back issue in a new veer from NPR's All Property Careful on the nation state of masculinity in America right now.

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"Merit while survey shows that 60 to 70 percent of men still enfeeble with the view that masculinity depends on emotional stoicism - never exposition fear, never exposition be painful," Kimmel says. "So, the world has something else wonderfully, and yet supreme men still fastener stalwartly to an morality of masculinity that comes off the set of "Mad Men"."I will try to stop these as they come up from time to time.

THE NEW AMERICAN MAN DOESN\'T Features Be keen on HIS Father

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June 23, 2014 5:55 PM ET

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This summer, "All Property Careful" is exploring what it means to be a man in America today. In some ways, the happening for men has something else wonderfully over the previous 50 living. Self-important women than men are departure to college, and the economy is transportation made known from jobs that widely partisan men, like mechanized and mining. Attitudes retain also something else on the social frontal, with young men having finer uncensored attitudes on the way to women and opportunity of being set of buildings fathers.

Pedro Noguera, a lecturer at New York College circles and intelligence of the Metropolitan Core for Cram on Equity and the Change of Schools, says the biggest campaigning has been in education. In 1962, men made up about 65 percent of college enrollees; today they make up about 43 percent.

The far-flung side of that small sculpture is the ne'er-do-well rate for men. Noguera tells NPR's Audie Cornish that in some states, it's binary as high as the female ne'er-do-well rate.

"These patterns speak to a tubby problem, seeing that we let know now that the jobs of the choose require college degrees," Noguera says.

The education disparity concerning men and women is also having an upshot on the dating spot, Noguera adds, no matter which that's been otherwise true in the African-American community: "A budding number of well-read, professional women... are weak to find men of alike education."

But sociologist Michael Kimmel, a lecturer at Obdurate Put College circles and director of the Core for the Understand writing of Men and Masculinities, says the broken up examination hasn't come with something else attitudes about masculinity.

"Merit while survey shows that 60 to 70 percent of men still enfeeble with the view that masculinity depends on emotional stoicism - never exposition fear, never exposition be painful," Kimmel says. "So, the world has something else wonderfully, and yet supreme men still fastener stalwartly to an morality of masculinity that comes off the set of "Mad Men"."

But Kimmel says today's boys and young men retain a a good deal better proposal of gender equality than an assortment of of their fathers did. He sees a pleasant example in cross-sex friendship. For 25 living, Kimmel has asked his students if they had a good friend of the render null and void sex. Formerly he first started asking, about 10 percent would key yes. Today, in this area somebody does.

"Goal about that. You make friends with your peers, right? You make friends with people you report your social group, not your leading or your servants. I mean, my students today are finer sensitive with gender equality in their interpersonal relationships than any age group in our history," he says.

Noguera also has seen men become a good deal finer set of buildings with raising their household and nationalized housework.

"But what hasn't come with that is a new definition of what it means to be a man as a nurturer in the family," Noguera says. "Can you be strong and be a nurturer? Well, an assortment of women retain figured out, yes, they retain to be, in fact. Seeing that they retain to elate the family on their own, and they can't supply to just make believe some man to array the day."

He says today's men are searching for a way to perch old ideas associated to strength with the need to be better consultation, finer friendly and finer open to others.