The decline of traditionally male blue-collar work like manufacturing has left many men adrift. There are growth industries, such as health care, where some of these men could get work. But they don't seem to be taking advantages of the splendid opportunities to become home health care aides or day care workers. In part that's because many of these jobs don't start out paying as well as the manufacturing jobs these men have lost or had hoped to gain. But in part it seems to be because the work isn't … well … manly enough.
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