Author David Maywald joins Zoe Sankey to discuss the female wage premium among young Australians, the collapse of male rites of passage, and why boys are told from primary school that masculinity is a problem to be managed.
His essay for Quillette: https://quillette.com/2026/05/05/the-emerging-female-wage-premium/ The Relentless War on Masculinity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1764339703?tag=quillette-20
00:00 Young women are out-earning young men
04:48 Why boys never got the same lift
11:14 The post-war family was the anomaly
15:12 Childlessness and a stake in the next generation
22:03 The rites of passage boys no longer have
28:49 Why it's rites, plural
36:58 100 of the Best Books for Men
45:21 Where the bias against boys begins
48:20 Why only 17% of primary teachers are men
55:19 What young men actually think
1:00:01 Abbie Chatfield and the podcast that started this one
1:10:12 Male psychology: the next frontier
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