•Boys are commonly shown less compassion than girls from an early age (amongst other things, boys are picked up after and slower than girls when they cry).

•Although a majority of women make less than men on the job; men are expected to relocate more often, work longer hours, and to keep a smaller cut of their pay checks for themselves than women, due to socially decided portions of obligations such as mortgages, romantic outings, and such.

•Men are expected to occupy the most dangerous and/or lowest paying jobs and positions (waste collection, roofing and construction, truck driving, mining, logging, firefighting, most things related to war).

•The pressure on women to 'hold down a man' is synonymous with the pressure on men to 'hold down a job.'