The Weekend Australian, Saturday December 22, 2012
Australia’s feminised curriculum puts boys at a significant disadvantage
ANGELA SHANAHAN
IT is an experience I have relived eight times, the stomach churning anticipation as we wait in agony for...
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In this month's issue:
grey is the new black in workplace dynamics
boys hit by body blues
engaging men national training seminar
art therapy - ahead of its time
13 reasons it’s unlucky to be a male
news briefs
World Cancer Day 4 February 2013
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The inaugural Victorian Male Health Conference is less than one week away and there has been an important development:
Unfortunately the Conference has not been able to attract sufficient registrations to make the Gathering financially viable over two days.
Consequently, the Gathering has been reduced to a one day program to be held on...
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Immediately following the Victorian Male Health Gathering, keynote speaker Celia Lashlie embarks on a speaking tour to seven locations across Victoria. She will present her observations arising from The Good Man Project, in which she visited 25 ...
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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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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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Australia will be the first country to offer males free access to the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, after the federal government announced it would spend $21 million to immunise nearly 900,000 boys across four years.
The new program, which will sta...
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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 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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Religious circumcisions are bodily harm and thus a crime, a German court ruled this week, in what was dubbed a precedent-setting decision.
Non-medical circumcision is a "serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body,&rd...
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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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Having two young boys can really put the stress on the F-word.
It is Saturday. I am lying in bed reading the news on my iPad. I find myself at an exasperated loss, unable to relax, having just screamed (again) at my sons for running around the house li...
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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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The number of boys and men seeking help for eating disorders is on the increase according to statistics from South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG).
Last year 9 per cent of our eating disorder patients at the SWLSTG s...
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Father’s Day is fast approaching. Few more days to go and we will be celebrating this day with overwhelming gratitude for our dads.
In a half-century study involving over 10,000 people from around the world, researchers from the University of Co...
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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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