The Middle Men
Wednesday 30 May, 10:00pm
The concept of ‘middle age’ is changing as recent generations are living longer and healthier lives. Men in the 21st Century are entering their ‘second adulthoods’ in radically different...
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The Middle Men (TV Documentary)
Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys
About The Program
Choirmaster Gareth Malone teaches in a primary school in Essex for one term. It is a school like many across Britain, with a significant gap between girls' and boys' achievement in literacy. Last week we saw Gareth and the boys tree-...
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Have women swung the pendulum too far?
When discussing gender issues from a male perspective you will often hear people talk about a pendulum that has swung too far.
It’s a nonsense metaphor that serves neither women nor men. The idea that there’s an imaginary pendulum that ...
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Daughters financially better off than mothers, but sons…
Are young people better off than their parents? At least when it comes to income, the answer depends on gender.
Today's young women make $1.17 for every $1 their moms earned back in 1980. Young men, however, are earning 10 cents per hour less than thei...
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Sex discrimination at London School of Economics
Tom Martin is making headlines around the world for bringing a £50,000 sex discrimination lawsuit against the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE), claiming its gender studies Masters programme he enrolled on consistently promotes biassed...
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Porn is not a dirty word
About 82 per cent of porn users in Australia are male and 55 per cent married, a survey of 1000 users found.
Many men believe pornography is harmless and women should stop banging on about it.
'MY WIFE doesn't show much enthusiasm for sex. She will pa...
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National Geographic seeks male victim/survivor of domestic violence for prime-time documentary
Sarah Isaac is currently researching the topic of men as victims of domestic violence at National Geographic and is looking for a younger male victim/survivor who is happy to talk on camera. The reason behind this being that they want to highlight tha...
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Swimming in the dark is no barrier for man who is blind
For many, losing their sight is the worst thing they could imagine happening to them. More than 30 years ago, this fear became reality for Melburnian, Allan Bates.
“I had an accident in my teens resulting in the loss of the left eye. I developed ...
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Male teacher numbers falling over abuse and pay concerns
FEAR of being accused of child sex crimes and higher pay in non-government schools are being blamed for a 4 per cent fall in the number of men teaching in NSW public schools.
While the number of male teachers in private schools has risen 20 per cent, g...
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How are mood, stress and our sex lives related?
You’re feeling down or chronically stressed. Is your sex life suffering the consequences? Low mood, stress and our (waning) sex lives often are closely related, right? Maybe not for men; recent research has found that depression and anxiety symp...
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Involved Dads Give Kids an Edge (Canada)
September 15, 2011 — New data from a long-running study of Canadian families suggest that fathers play a key role in their children's intellect and behavior.
Compared with children with absentee fathers, children whose fathers were present and ac...
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In Study, Fatherhood Leads to Drop in Testosterone (USA)
This is probably not the news most fathers want to hear.
Testosterone, that most male of hormones, takes a dive after a man becomes a parent. And the more he gets involved in caring for his children — changing diapers, jiggling the boy or girl on...
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Fatherhood ‘lowers testosterone to keep men loyal’ (UK)
Men appear to be biologically wired to care for their babies, say researchers who have discovered levels of testosterone go down after fatherhood.
This drop in the male hormone presumably makes the dad more family-oriented and less likely to st...
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What Makes a Strong Co-Parenting Father? (Podcast)
We could have entitled this week's show, "What Makes a Strong Co-Parent?" After all, both mothers and fathers require strength for their parenting journeys. But it's fathers whom our culture all-too-often treat as playing expendable, secondary, o...
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The Family Court, where fathers are the victim
The Federal Labor government appears bent on making it easier for mothers in Family Court proceedings to make false accusations about fathers being violent and abusing their children.
Such accusations are a routine part of...
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