From American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark J. Perry, and his economics blog “Carpe Diem,” comes this analysis showing that boys and men have much higher rates of suicide, murder, violent crimes, incarceration, job fatalities, and homelessness. But despite these risk factors and outcomes, girls and women continue to receive disproportionate attention, resources, and financial support. Women’s commissions, women’s resource centers, and women’s studies programs flourish on campuses across the country, but no similar men’s commissions, resource centers or men’s studies programs exist, he writes.
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Suzanne Downing founded Must Read Alaska and served as its editor for many years. Her prolific writing spans nearly every topic meaningful to Alaskans. Before founding Must Read Alaska, she served as editor of the Juneau Empire and as a speechwriter for Governor Sean Parnell.
