American men today face huge, scaled-up challenges and anxieties like never before - socially, financially, professionally, and personally.
Are you male and feel that things are not quite going according to plan? Maybe you bought the ticket, but the train jumped the tracks and now your life doesn’t look much like the American dream. You aren't alone. Millions of men, from almost every background, feel the same.
Hard to get a good job, live well, have a relationship, see your kids? Are you gaming, using hookup apps, booze or drugs? Like many Americans, do you think “the system” is rigged?
ManOUT is digging
into the issues.
ManOUT is digging into the issues.
1950s: Nine out of 10 American men worked.
Now: Fewer than seven out of 10 work.
Out of work
1973: Men earned on average $53,294, measured in 2014 dollars.
2014: $50,441.
Lighter pockets
Men appear to be 50 percent less likely to trust government than women.
Out of patience
1960: 9 out of 10 children had fathers living in the same home.
Now: fewer than 2 out of 3 on any given night.
Raising kids
1960: 28 percent of 18 to 34-year-old American men live with their parents.
Now: 43 percent.
In mom and dad's
1970: nine percent never married.
2012: 23 percent never married.
Out of marriage
Membership in primarily male service organizations like the Rotary Club, Elks, and Kiwanis has dropped by at least one-third since the 1960s.
Civic Clubs
1970: 35 percent more men than women in college.
Now: 36 percent more women in college than men.
College
1950s: Nine out of 10 American men worked.
Now: Fewer than seven out of 10 work.
Out of work
1973: men earned on average $53,294, measured in 2014 dollars.
2014: $50,441.
Lighter pockets
Men are about 50 percent less likely to trust government than women.
Out of patience
Raising kids
1960: 9 out of 10 children had fathers living in the same home.
Now: fewer than 2 out of 3 on any given night.
1960: 28 percent of 18 to 34-year-old American men live with their parents.
Now: 43 percent.
In mom and dad's
1960: nine percent never married.
2012: 23 percent never married.
Out of marriage
Membership in primarily male service organizations like the Rotary Club, Elks, and Kiwanis has dropped by at least one-third since the 1960s.
Civic Clubs
1970: 35 percent more men than women in college.
Now: 36 percent more women in college than men.
College
Until 1980 men and women voted evenly for Democrats and Republicans.
Now, there is a 24-percentage point gender voting gap, with white men being much more likely to vote for Republicans.
Ballot Box
Too often you turn on cable media behemoth, some airbag is throwing out glib terms like “freeloader,” “whiner,” “lazy.” Really? That’s the best they can do?
ManOUT is about doing better! We’re looking for more than a few men willing to tell us how it really is — your experiences, opinions, how you see it.
Your answers can be anonymous, unless you want to connect with other men. What you tells us is partly research for a book, but it’s also about building a community that gets it. You could be 20, 45, or 64, married or single, working or not, or of any race or ethnicity. All you have to be is a man.
Hey! We get it.
Hey! We get it!
Too often you turn on cable media behemoth, some airbag is throwing out glib terms like “freeloader,” “whiner,” “lazy.” Really? That’s the best they can do? Yep!
ManOUT is about doing better! We’re looking for more than a few men willing to tell us how it really is — your experiences, opinions, how you see it.
Your answers can be anonymous, unless you want to connect with other men. What you tells us is partly research for a book, but it’s also about building a community that gets it. You could be 20, 45, or 64, married or single, working or not, or of any race or ethnicity. All you have to be is a man.