Women attend university at significantly higher rates than men (3:2 ratio).
Men's suicide rate is around 3x that of women's.
The ratio of the unhoused is even worse, more like 4:1.
Men work tens of thousands more hours during their lifetime than women. They enter the workforce earlier, and leave it later, than women. They work longer hours when employed, and suffer far more occupational injuries and stress. Even their commutes are longer on average.
Despite all that work, men report lower job satisfaction than women.
And despite that late retirement, men's life expectancies are years below women, and the gap continues to grow.
Does that make it easier for them to get jobs? No. Using synthetic resumes with randomized gender, female-coded applicants to software engineering roles receive 41% higher callback rates (https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/marley_finley...).
Part of this is due to algorithmic discrimination: when LLMs are used to evaluate job applicants, they show a strong bias for women (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10922).
Men died at a rate roughly 2x that of women from Covid: this is comparable to the difference between white people and marginalized racial groups. Despite that, they were excluded from accelerated access to the Covid vaccine by the CDC. So you might have a 20 year old woman having access to the vaccine faster than a 60 year old man, even though the CDC's own framework required that groups at greater risk from it get faster access to it.
If these statistics applied to any other group, they'd be top line news stories.
Now, I'm sure you object to all of these as examples of men being marginalized, with the logic going something like "men are privileged, so if social structures harm them, it doesn't count as a social harm, and we know men are privileged because they don't suffer from social harms." That's entirely your prerogative. I'm empathetic: that itself is a result of you being socially harmed, because society has so thoroughly enforced the male gender role into your brain that it becomes part of your identity that you're strong and manly and need nothing from the world and heroically protect women. Take some time to unpack that internalized misandry.
Speculative, more than imagined. You're free to offer other reasons for why objective statistics indicating male disadvantage in certain contexts don't count as male disadvantage.
Men's suicide rate is around 3x that of women's.
The ratio of the unhoused is even worse, more like 4:1.
Men work tens of thousands more hours during their lifetime than women. They enter the workforce earlier, and leave it later, than women. They work longer hours when employed, and suffer far more occupational injuries and stress. Even their commutes are longer on average.
Despite all that work, men report lower job satisfaction than women.
And despite that late retirement, men's life expectancies are years below women, and the gap continues to grow.
Does that make it easier for them to get jobs? No. Using synthetic resumes with randomized gender, female-coded applicants to software engineering roles receive 41% higher callback rates (https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/marley_finley...).
Part of this is due to algorithmic discrimination: when LLMs are used to evaluate job applicants, they show a strong bias for women (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10922).
Men died at a rate roughly 2x that of women from Covid: this is comparable to the difference between white people and marginalized racial groups. Despite that, they were excluded from accelerated access to the Covid vaccine by the CDC. So you might have a 20 year old woman having access to the vaccine faster than a 60 year old man, even though the CDC's own framework required that groups at greater risk from it get faster access to it.
If these statistics applied to any other group, they'd be top line news stories.
Now, I'm sure you object to all of these as examples of men being marginalized, with the logic going something like "men are privileged, so if social structures harm them, it doesn't count as a social harm, and we know men are privileged because they don't suffer from social harms." That's entirely your prerogative. I'm empathetic: that itself is a result of you being socially harmed, because society has so thoroughly enforced the male gender role into your brain that it becomes part of your identity that you're strong and manly and need nothing from the world and heroically protect women. Take some time to unpack that internalized misandry.