ARE MEN'S EXPERIENCES AT RISK OF BECOMING LESS AND LESS REPORTED ON?

Around 1998, I realized why the broad spectrum of the press seemed to be growing increasingly pro-female and often outright antimale. My daughter, who was attending Michigan State University at the time, showed me a couple of her university's annual lists of twenty professions ranked by their entry-level salary. For two years in a row, the profession that occupied the bottom rung of the list was journalism, paying only about $20,000 annually.

It is the bottom-rung, low-paying job that men, even today nearly 40 years into our quest for gender equality, still feel far more pressure than women to avoid. Men tend more than women to pick from the professions that pay the best. Women are more likely to enter the lower-paying professions because they, unlike men, don't feel they need a high income to attract sexual partners. They are freer to seek careers based first on interest, second on pay — the opposite for men generally.

Hence women are more inclined than men to aim for a career in the lower-paying field of journalism.

And since female journalists are naturally more tuned in to women's experiences than to men's, men's experiences are at risk of becoming less and less reported on. When you throw in the fact that many of the women entering journalism are ideological feminists, you can understand why men's experiences, on the rare occasion they are written about, are frequently framed in such terms as “oppressive,” “violent,” and “misogynistic.”

References:
"The Sexes' Wage Gap Explained"

“Why Men Earn More”

"The Untold Side To the Gender Story" [doc]

tags: antimale media bias  gender wage gap  

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