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As society becomes increasingly feminised, where does that leave men and boys? In a controversial lecture, Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and author of The Decline of Males, argues that with the advent of the pill and legalised abortion in the 1960s, women won an unprecedented and wholly desirable degree of control over biological reproduction — an area which men, on the other hand, slowly became alienated from. Within family life, men are now increasingly outlaws rather than in-laws. Our education system has also become progressively more feminised. The relationship between the genders is out of sync, he argues, and both men and women are suffering as a result. A discussion with Kate Fox,