Men on Strike

Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters

By: Helen Smith PhD

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are responding. They're dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this man-child phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them?

As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren't dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development; they are acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands, and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes, and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the 21st century. Men are starting to fight back. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.

©2013 Helen Smith, PhD (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC

A must for men, and a should for women

I finished this in two days. Simply terrific, it points out all of the problems men and boys are facing fairly. I've had a lot of these problems myself as a divorced man and father, I wish I would have had this sooner.

Men must have this knowledge, and women should have it. The world may become a little more fair if this gains more readership.

Great information

More people need to hear this information especially in today's society. This book was narrated very well.

Game changer

Great book with lots of great information. I love her approach to finding out why men don’t want to marry? She went and talked to real guys. Men at bars, gyms, online forums and she listened. I am going to have my sons and daughter listen to this book.

This book was eye opening

This book was right on time for me. There are so many pieces to the social, political and economic gender puzzle this book fills in. I will definitely be adding this to my arsenal of defense.

Wow! This perspective is so needed.

As a woman- I want to live in a society where men are full participants. We all suffer when there are these societal abuses towards men. I want my young sons to have a place to contribute in this world- and not just be seen as categorically part of the female problem.