Male Health Victoria is proud to announce the inaugural Victorian Male Health Gathering 2012 - The Journeys of Men and Boys. November 19-20, 2012.
Please see this flyer for more details, or visit the Gathering webpage at http://malehealthvic.org.au/con...
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Boys’ Education
Victorian Male Health Gathering 2012
Men fare worse than women in education, health and crime (ABS)
In February 2012 the ABS released its Gender Indicators Report accompanied by a media release titled Busy mums want more paid work that completely ignored male disadvantage (see Men's Health Australia report here).
Today they have redressed this i...
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Enforced conformity in class condemns boys to mediocrity (USA)
Henry V is one of Shakespeare's most appealing characters. He was rambunctious when young and courageous when older. But suppose Henry went to an American school.
By about the third week of kindergarten, Henry's teacher would be sending notes home sayi...
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Girls outperforming boys in "masculine" subjects (UK)
Girls are outperforming boys in traditionally “masculine” subjects such as engineering and construction, despite repeated attempts to close the education gender gap, it emerged today.
New figures show teenage girls are more likely to achie...
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Child sex case: female former teacher arrested on Sydney’s northern beaches
Police have laid seven charges against a female former teacher at a northern beaches high school, who is accused of grooming a teenage male student for sex.
The woman was arrested at a unit block in Dee Why at 9.15am and taken to Dee Why police station...
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13 reasons it’s unlucky to be a man (UK)
When your life is committed to helping the world work for everyone – men and boys included – it’s easy to forget that most people don’t see the inequality and discrimination that men and boys face on a daily basis.
So to help us sp...
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Robyn Urback on shocking anti-male hatred on the SFU campus (Canada)
The student union at Simon Fraser University in B.C. has made the apparently contentious decision to finance the creation of a Men’s Centre on campus. Motivated, surely, by deep-seeated patriarchal values, the union approved a budget of $30,000 t...
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The Odyssey Program: In School Workshops For Adolescent Boys
The Odyssey Program is here to help Australian teenage boys become the best men they can be!
The Program visits secondary schools with a fun and engaging day of workshops jam-packed with information ...
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ABS Releases Gender Indicators and Ignores Male Disadvantage
Today the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia's so-called impartial statistical body released its Gender Indicators report: "a summary of gender specific data in six domains representing Economic security, Education, Health, Work and famil...
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Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys (UK)
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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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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Sex discrimination at London School of Economics (UK)
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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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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Schoolboys thrive on risk at recess
On a Razor's edge … students show their scooter skills at Tudor House. Photo: Brendan Esposito
FOR generations children have complained that school can be cruel and unusual punishment. Now it seems some headmasters are listening, introducing mo...
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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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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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