SBS Television’s Insight program is putting together a show on sexual harassment in the workplace. So far they've heard from a lot of women about their thoughts on sexual harassment; what do men think? Where do you draw the line? Have you ever experienced it? Or been accused of it yourself? They are keen to...
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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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By Anthony Smith, Industry Partner to the NHMRC Center for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention (CRESP).
This Paper is an extension of an earlier Paper from 2012. A summarised version of the 2012 Paper was published in the Report Obsessive Hope...
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A unique new program designed and delivered by mature-aged men to help re-employ mature-aged men is now available. A Pilot for the Program has been conducted this year in both metropolitan and regional areas of Victoria. The 45 + Program Pilot was part...
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Enables men to support other men in their workplace, organisation or community.
Trains men with knowledge and skills to support other men experiencing challenges with personal, relationship or mental health issues.
Equips men to take action to prevent ...
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Enables men to support other men in their workplace, organisation or community.
Trains men with knowledge and skills to support other men experiencing challenges with personal, relationship or mental health issues.
Equips men to take action to prevent ...
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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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In this month's issue:
USA launches men’s health & wellbeing framework
men’s health week 2013 launched
UK & Australian professionals reveal reasons men don’t get help
Negative Health Effects of Your Desk Job
men’s health...
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In this month's issue:
USA launches men’s health & wellbeing framework
men’s health week 2013 launched
UK & Australian professionals reveal reasons men don’t get help
Negative Health Effects of Your Desk Job
men’s health...
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Rural and remote communities are at the centre of the mythology and cultural ethos of Australia. Most of us have indulged nostalgic and sentimental thoughts of the outback and life in the bush – helped along perhaps by a film we’ve seen. B...
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David Gilmore in his expertly crafted study of masculinity, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts
of Masculinity (1992), points out that manhood is nearly ubiquitous in the cultures of the world.
Very early on in his book, Gilmore introduces us to the Fox Indians, one of the aboriginal peoples of
North America, whose word for manhood translates...
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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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This is an edited version of a research paper by Prof. Bob Birrell, Virgonia Rapson, and Clare Hourigan, of the Monash University Centre for Population and Urban Research for the Australian Family Association written in March 2004. Their insights are still very current today.
Economic changes over the past 20 years have conspired to create...
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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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