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:
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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An abridged version of this article appeared as an op-ed in the Newcastle Herald on November 17, 2012, and on the Online Opinion website on November 23, 2012.
November 19 is International Men’s Day: a time to promote male role models; to celebra...
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This week's topic for The Sun-Herald's weekly column The Loaded Dog is:
As we prepare to celebrate Fathers’ Day on Sunday, are men given enough time to be great fathers? Do bosses give men with family commitments the same job flexibility a...
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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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Chivalry has declined since it first dignified medieval men’s pursuit of excellence. On its inception in twelfth-century Europe, chivalry offered knights new opportunities for camaraderie, heroism, and comity in battle; moreover, it both occasion...
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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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In this month's issue:
Gamarada reconnecting men with spirit
time to step back and think
Current Men’s Health SERVICES Training Programs
Effective Men’s Health Promotion
Proposed Graduate Diploma in Male Studies
men fare worse in educatio...
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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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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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Channel 7 News Sydney reporter Sally Bowrey reports on the increase in the number of stay-at-home dads, but the lack of social services to support them. Broadcast on 12th June 2012.
Source: 'Daycare Dads' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO4s8X...
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The right of both divorced fathers and mothers to see their children is to be enshrined in law for the first time as part of changes to family justice, despite warnings from the government's independent review and lawyers that it would "clog the court...
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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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The Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) has issued a media release claiming that Australian workplaces discriminate against women because of an average gender wage difference between male and female graduates of $2,000. The sourc...
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