‘Good jobs’ for high school graduates have dwindled. Manufacturing and other manual-intensive occupations that on average paid substantially higher salaries than services have disappeared. This has undercut men’s ability to provide, bruised their egos, fostered patriarchal nostalgia, and catalysed votes for the far right.
Great article. I worked quite a bit on the research around China joining the WTO ("China shock"). The societal impacts of these concepts of who should be breadwinner (based on gender) had some even deeper effects. Areas affected by manufacturing jobs moving to China, saw men have higher rates of depression and suicide (some of the suicide rate today can probably still be explained by this).
These perceptions of "gender roles" have very real impacts. I've always thought that this would be much more interesting to teach in intro to economics courses, and what economics can show us.
Great article. I worked quite a bit on the research around China joining the WTO ("China shock"). The societal impacts of these concepts of who should be breadwinner (based on gender) had some even deeper effects. Areas affected by manufacturing jobs moving to China, saw men have higher rates of depression and suicide (some of the suicide rate today can probably still be explained by this).
These perceptions of "gender roles" have very real impacts. I've always thought that this would be much more interesting to teach in intro to economics courses, and what economics can show us.
Fathers as providers has deep evolutionary roots in Homo sapiens. I have done a post on this, prompted by this post. https://www.lorenzofromoz.net/p/breadwinners-homemakers-and-the-decline