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banner Thursday, 4 January, 2001, 16:59 GMT
The Ill-Adapted Male

Rosalind Gill, presenter of the Ill-Adapted Male

Discover your attitude to this week's Analysis by comparing the following statements.

Men are in crisis because...

a) they are emotionally illiterate, badly behaved, violently competitive; in sum innately ill-adapted to modern social norms and processes. This results from a nature fashioned on the African savannah in millennia past.

b) they're in crisis because economic trends have moved against them consigning them to a long hours culture away from family and children but also denying them the traditional jobs in which they found fulfilment.

c) men are in crisis because of a conspiracy against them and the feminisation of society which fails to recognise their admirable qualities.

d) men have never had it so good.


Men have all those old fashioned virtues which are just not fashionable anymore in a world which is increasingly feminised.

Fay Weldon, interviewed for the Ill-Adapted Male

But how many of these views stand scrutiny. Ros Gill examines them in pursuit of the truth about what's increasingly said to be a male malaise, looking at evidence from the new science of evolutionary psychology, sociological surveys and trends in the economy to determine whether those factors blamed for a male crisis really hold up.

Producer: Michael Blastland

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