This essay by Zozan Khaled Musa, 25, was originally published on PRI.org on May 31, 2016, and is republished here with permission.

According to her, this type of backlash is a historical trend, recurring when it appears that women have made substantial gains in their efforts to obtain equal rights.

And I remembered back to about 10 years ago when I read a book by Susan Faludi called Stiffed The Betrayal of the American Man, in which she described how hard the recession had hit men, and I started to think about whether it had gotten worse this time around in this recession.