Young men will only have themselves to blame if they cannot find work, because they waste too much time on computer games, according to Dr David Gruen, deputy secretary for economic policy at the Prime Minister’s Department. Playing neatly into the “mediocre male” narrative worming its way through various opinion pieces about workplace gender and ethnicity quotas, Dr Gruen’s pronouncement at the Economic and Social Outlook Conference in July grabbed headlines, distractin…
