http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-07-15/news/bs-ed-masculinity-yarrow-20100715_1_masculinity-gender-roles-inequality
I chose an article from the online edition of The Baltimore Sun in which it examines how the recent global recession has affected American masculinty and the widening divide between groups of men.
It talks about how corporate masculinity is different to that of working/middle class masculinity.
"Corporate or "metrosexual" men have only their investments, hair color and attractive partners to lose, whereas all too many other American men have been losing their jobs, their homes, their families, their status and their identities."
This shows that just because you go out and work and provide for your family in a "masculine" job does not neccesarily still equate to the same feeling of Masculinity as "In 2007, 22 percent of husbands had wives who earned more than they did, compared with just 4 percent in 1970." The men who are seen as less masculine in some senses because they are well groomed and less rugged are the ones with the higher paid jobs.
" "alpha moms" are celebrated as women who can do it all. They have high-powered careers, raise children, and, God forbid, don't really need men. Self-reliant and turned off by today's "losermen," record numbers choose not to marry."
Can the fact that "men in their 30s earn less than their fathers did at a comparable stage in life, while women's earnings have increased by about 25 percent" be to do with the rise of feminism and equal rights for women in the workplace and that because women have had to in most cases work alot harded to get where they are compared to some men who feel like they are entitled because they are men.
This is only going to increase with the educational performance of men falling, "One provocative Princeton study explored whether it's a coincidence that the sharp increase in the male prison population since the late 1970s has tracked the increasing failures of men at school and work since that same time."
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