Following last week’s launch of Our Watch – a new national initiative aimed to prevent violence against women and their children – the One in Three Campaign has released a new analysis of the latest Australian data on male victims of...
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In this month's issue:
Households struggle between pay days
Airline child seating policies: all men are not potential paedophiles
Male Menopause: No longer a myth by Jed Diamond
men’s health services TRAINING PROGRAMS
news briefs
Men, Unemploym...
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In this month's issue:
Households struggle between pay days
Airline child seating policies: all men are not potential paedophiles
Male Menopause: No longer a myth by Jed Diamond
men’s health services TRAINING PROGRAMS
news briefs
Men, Unemploym...
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The feminist movement is working to tackle misogyny and its many harmful consequences, but should it address misandry, the male equivalent, too? Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters
It's difficult to deny that women suffer more than men as a result of thei...
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By JUDITH E. GROSSMAN
I am a feminist. I have marched at the barricades, subscribed to Ms. magazine, and knocked on many a door in support of progressive candidates committed to women's rights. Until a month ago, I would have expressed unqualified supp...
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This book is, in a word, courageous, in one sense in particular: it exposes how ideologies, “isms”
based on an assumed superiority in which one group feels entitled to power over another, have no
place in the quest for social justice, equal...
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The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has once again appeared to 'find' wage discrimination without supporting evidence. We have covered this issue previously here.
Thankfully this time around Graduate Careers Australia, the research body that ea...
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We were on the tram, me and two little boys. It was a Saturday evening in June and the three of us were returning from a football match.
One child was my son, now seven years old, the other his schoolfriend.
Two matronly women noticed the three of us ...
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Dads' group members Don Crinson (left) with son Merlin and James Vincent with daughter Ashley. Photo: James Boddington
Charles Areni was shopping alone in a city department store between Monday meetings when he realised he was being watched.
His three...
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In this month's issue:
friends are key to midlife wellbeing
fly in/fly out lifestyle bad for workers
male victims of violence face gaps in services and need special consideration: NSW Government Report
airlines demonizing men
events
MEN’S HEALTH...
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Men face their own form of discrimination, which one author has labelled the 'second sexism'. Photo: istock photos
DAVID Benatar knew what was coming. In the preface to his new book The Second Sexism, the South African professor attempted to get in fi...
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Battling stereotypes … preschool worker Craig d'Arcy has set up the Males in Early Childhood Network Group. Photo: Greg Mace
As a young man eager to get into a boom industry with a robust future, Craig d'Arcy spent several years as the only male stu...
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Miles Groth, J.P. Messina and Jonathan Badiali provide reviews of David Benatar's The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys in the 3rd edition of the New Male Studies journal.
From New Male Studies: An International Journal - Vol. 1, Issue...
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As predicted, despite yesterday's media release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing that men fare worse than women in education, health and crime, the Sydney Morning Herald has somehow twisted the data around to claim that "Statistics conf...
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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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This advertisement appeared on page 37 of the Times Newspaper. Today Fathers4Justice are holding a Father's Day Service at Trafalgar Square to protest against the secret British family courts that routinely separate children from good loving fathers.
...
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