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Education system is biased towards girls, yet we do nothing

December 22, 2012
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Education system is biased towards girls, yet we do nothing

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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EMALE Issue 117 (December 2012)

December 1, 2012
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EMALE Issue 117 (December 2012)

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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Victorian Male Health Conference – important development

November 13, 2012
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Victorian Male Health Conference – important development

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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He’ll Be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men – MHV’s first regional PD and community tour (Victoria)

October 27, 2012
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He’ll Be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men – MHV’s first regional PD and community tour (Victoria)

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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Victorian Male Health Gathering 2012

October 4, 2012
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Victorian Male Health Gathering 2012

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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Men fare worse than women in education, health and crime (ABS)

July 27, 2012
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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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Boys first in Gardasil cancer vaccine rollout | The Australian

July 12, 2012
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Boys first in Gardasil cancer vaccine rollout | The Australian

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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Enforced conformity in class condemns boys to mediocrity (USA)

July 9, 2012
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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)

July 5, 2012
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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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Religious circumcisions are crimes says court (Germany)

June 26, 2012
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Religious circumcisions are crimes says court (Germany)

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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Child sex case: female former teacher arrested on Sydney’s northern beaches

June 22, 2012
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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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I swear I’m becoming more like my father

June 22, 2012
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I swear I’m becoming more like my father

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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13 reasons it’s unlucky to be a man (UK)

June 22, 2012
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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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Eating disorders on the increase for men and boys (UK)

June 13, 2012
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Eating disorders on the increase for men and boys (UK)

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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New Study: Fatherly Love is a Critical Factor to a Child’s Personality Development (USA)

June 13, 2012
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New Study: Fatherly Love is a Critical Factor to a Child’s Personality Development (USA)

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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Robyn Urback on shocking anti-male hatred on the SFU campus (Canada)

May 20, 2012
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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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