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Culture where real boys don't work
made for free at coggle.it Harassed for working as masculine jobs are meant to be manual
labour Epstein

More focused on peer group

Labelled as sissies and faced homophobic abuse


Laddish subculture is growing
Francis Laddish subcultures
Masculinity is associated with being tough

Boys are concerned with labels like 'swots'
Shortage of male primary teache
Found that anti feminists have contributed to a moral panic

Believed that they will become the dangerous unemployed
underclass
Threaten social stability, leading to poverty and crime
Ringrose
Leads to policies shifting to help failing boys, which has negative
impacts
Ignores other problems like EM students and narrowing down
gender policies to helping underachievement, ignoring other
problems girls face like harassment, subject choice stereotypes


Decline in male employment opportunities has led to a crisis in
identity for men Mitsos and Browne

Boys think that it is unlikely for them to get a proper job and
therefore have little motivation and self esteem

Decline in manufacturing jobs, increase in long term
employment
Service sector jobs are often part time and desk bases,
more suited to women Globalisation and decline of 'male' jobs
Male achievemen
Females become main breadwinner

Led to a crisis in masculinity

Not relevant to society

Men are still more likely to be in employment than women

Relevant for W/C people as they do manual labour jobs that
require less skill Analysis (AO3)


Not relevant for M/C, who do higher skilled work
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