Why the US Economy is Biased Against Men

Many of you have been sending me a link to this Atlantic piece entitled “Why the U.S. Economy is Biased against Men” (thanks BTW):

The workplace cultural practices more often preferred by men have largely been replaced by approaches more often preferred by women. Individual initiative is now usually deemed inferior to teamwork, competition often replaced by collaboration, “push through to get the job done” with “process feelings,” decision-making by leader with decision-making by committee. Men are more likely than women to throw all of themselves into work than to demand worklife balance, for which they are often dubbed with pathologizing monikers such as “workaholic” and “unable to relax” rather than “heroic” for being so contributory, even if it costs them their life. Men die 5.2 years earlier than women, a major cause being stress-related illnesses such as heart attack and stroke.

The author of the piece, Marty Nemko, seems to be on the right track, though I don’t appreciate his crack about Montgomery, Alabama.