Stay-at-home dads are a growing legion. Photo: Getty Images
Stay-at-home dads aren't really a mystery. They're not wrapped in riddles. They shouldn't be an enigma. They are, in fact, legion. A small, undermanned legion, to be sure, but growing in stre...
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Stay-at-home dads are a growing legion. Photo: Getty Images
Stay-at-home dads aren't really a mystery. They're not wrapped in riddles. They shouldn't be an enigma. They are, in fact, legion. A small, undermanned legion, to be sure, but growing in stre...
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The system is leaving boys behind ... Photo: Getty Images
Boys will be boys, they tell us, but how many of us actually take this adage to heart and embrace it?
I am the mother of four boys, now all adults. If I think back to their childhoods and adolescence, it’s a whirlwind of...
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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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A devastating blow for “Gender Theory”: the Nordic Council of Ministers (a regional inter-governmental co-operation consisting of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland) has decided to close down the NIKK Nordic Gender Institute. Th...
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Today's Sydney Morning Herald features an article by Guy Mosel titled 21st century man: lost and anachronistic. Overall it's a very good overview of the various strands of the men's movement. However, it suffers from a couple of problems that most med...
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Spring sunshine on a Tuesday morning and I am musing on the emails and letters that I have been receiving over the past few months from mothers, fathers, grandparents and other family members, all on the subject of family separation, some on related is...
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This op-ed has been published on Online Opinion.
The 1 Billion Rising campaign has created a YouTube video called "Man Prayer," with words by Eve Ensler and film by Tony Stroebel.
The video notes read as follows:
Violence against women hurts everyone,...
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Illustration by Ben Javens
Boys score as well as or better than girls on most standardized tests, yet they are far less likely to get good grades, take advanced classes or attend college. Why? A study coming out this week in The Journal of ...
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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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Intimate partner violence (IPV) or domestic violence (DV) is often framed as a “woman’s issue” or “violence against women” generating the perception of males involved in violent relationships as the aggressor and more capa...
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) or domestic violence (DV) is often framed as a “woman’s issue” or “violence against women” generating the perception of males involved in violent relationships as the aggressor and more capa...
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The Acting Minister for the Status of Women, Jenny Macklin, today called for public comment to help develop the next stage of the Australian Government’s landmark workplace gender equality reforms.
The introduction of the Workplace Gender Equalit...
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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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