women are decisively outnumber men and graduate school, there are the majority of doctoral there now theaj majority of new enrollees and both law and medical schools. for men, the consequences of failing in school are long-term and profound. between 1979 and 2010, working age men with only high school degrees saw their real hourly wages drop about 20%. over the same period, high school educated women sawy their wages rise, the decline of the industrial economy disproportionately hurt men. there are now 7 million working age men in america who don t work. they dropped out of the labor force.il nearly half of them take pain medication on any given day. that s the highest rate in the world by far. far fewer young men get marriede then just a few decades ago and fewer stay married. about one in fivear american children live now only with their mothers, that s double the rate of 1970. millions more boys growing up without fathers. young adult men are more likely to live with a parent than t