Yep, most workplaces are downright hostile to men nowadays. I had a female boss come in, and the first day, she called us all into a meeting and said “now that there’s a woman in charge, we’re going to start doing things the right way!” Stupid wench hadn’t even taken a few days to learn how we had been doing anything, just assumed it was all wrong because men had been managing it.
The female managers tend to hire mostly females and give them higher wages than male counterparts, and the female employees are not held to the same standards as men either. I really can’t blame any men for just dropping out in these type of conditions.
I saw that happening in a fortune 100 hi tech company in about 1991.
It is easy for me to believe subjectively that there are more and more government jobs these days. Those jobs seem largely regulatory. For example, did the gardener cut the grass at 2.0” +/- 0.5”? If not, it could be a deviation worthy of a report to a superior in the government agency for corrective action. These jobs are ideal for females because they require no upper body strength— they require no physical strength at all, but they do require a large measure of social interaction and so therefore a larger measure of social skills.
meanwhile, the number of jobs involving physical strength and other physical movement are declining due to mechanization.
with more women than men in the workforce, along with government mandated affirmative action, women begin to move into management positions and many of those wreak havoc, at least ever 28 days or so. In my experience many of them are simply mean towards their male subordinates for emotional reasons, often seemingly associated with so called spurned women.