The Truth About the Gender Pay Gap with David Maywald

Author David Maywald joins Zoe Sankey to discuss the female wage premium among young Australians, the collapse of male rites of passage, and why boys are told from primary school that masculinity is a problem to be managed.

His essay for Quillette: https://quillette.com/2026/05/05/the-emerging-female-wage-premium/ The Relentless War on Masculinity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1764339703?tag=quillette-20

00:00 Young women are out-earning young men

04:48 Why boys never got the same lift

11:14 The post-war family was the anomaly

15:12 Childlessness and a stake in the next generation

22:03 The rites of passage boys no longer have

28:49 Why it's rites, plural

36:58 100 of the Best Books for Men

45:21 Where the bias against boys begins

48:20 Why only 17% of primary teachers are men

55:19 What young men actually think