UK: "The surprising lessons I learned on a journey to the heart of feckless Britain"

Article here. What jumped out at me about this is that most of her examples were of young men. Does that mean that young women do not have similar problems of low self-esteem or a feeling of "feckless hopelessness"? I doubt it, and she mentions two cases of it in her article. But I have to wonder, is it just easier for her to find examples of such despair among young men? Based on other reports I have read, that answer seems to me to be "yes". Excerpt:

'With my producer, Charlotte Simpson, I went to the north-east of England, an area of very high deprivation with the highest rate of youth unemployment in England.

What I found was in many respects somewhat chastening. I met people living near Blyth, Northumberland, who were struggling to get a job in places where there was precious little work to be found.

Many young people seemed to be just being shunted from vocational course to vocational course without ever getting a job. When asked, they all said they wanted to work in order to retain a sense of self-respect.
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When I asked this teenage father whether he would accept a job he found boring in order to support his family, he said he would not; he would rather live indefinitely on welfare.

This boy hadn't seen his own biological father for years; he seemed to have no responsible male role model in his family. And now he looked set to give his own son the same message.
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One Nigerian man leaves home before four every morning to get to the first of his two daily jobs in central London as a cleaner, getting back home at 10.30 at night. At weekends he sleeps, so he rarely sees his family.

Then there is the harassed mother from Ecuador, trying to look after her young children in between her two jobs cleaning lavatories an hour's bus ride from her home - all with no holidays, no sick pay and, with both jobs on the minimum wage, sometimes not enough money for food.
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I developed a greater sympathy for people struggling to motivate themselves to work. But I also developed an even deeper belief that the current system, which seems to undermine them at every turn, must as a matter of urgency be reformed.'