While it is obviously true that we need to consider very carefully how to deal with a world in which change seems to be constantly accelerating and thus jobs are ever less secure, it's a mistake to pretend that we are magically unaffected by the millions of years of primate evolution that have shaped our brains - and therefore have shaped our feelings and behaviors.

Men did not magically one day wake up and find they were under huge social pressure to "man up." Societies are to a very large degree reflections of our primal modes of operating and we shape society as much as society shapes us. Using silly empty terms like "the patriarchy" achieves nothing and reveals intellectual paucity. Far better to look more carefully at gender-oriented dynamics and examine how they manifest in order to see how mitigations may perhaps be engineered.

The reality is that evolution has hardwired us with certain instincts and preferences, and pretending these don't exist, or are not relevant, is a guaranteed road to policy failure. Better to recognize that there are evolutionary reasons for the differences in gender-based behaviors, and to consider what social constructs may help mitigate some of the more deleterious consequences of the fact that many of these behaviors are no longer adaptive in our complex technological world, than to imagine that a bit of empty hand-waving will result in anything of value. This is a serious problem, not amenable to trite prescriptions about what men "should" do.