Monday, December 12, 2011 Are young people better off than their parents? At least when it comes to income, the answer depends on gender. Today's young women make $1.17 for every $1 their moms earned back in 1980. Young men, however, are earning 10 cents per hour less than their fathers did 30 years ago, new research shows.
Sunday, May 1, 2011 When I told a group of women friends I was going to write a celebratory essay about men, I picked up a faint, unspoken chill of disapproval. No matter that all of them are married to good men who trudge off to work every day, love their kids, clear the gutters and seem unlikely to suddenly declare they need a year off "to find themselves". But perhaps the women were more concerned than reproachful: writing in praise of men is risky business. It's inevitably interpreted as being anti-female, or at least anti-feminist, and every word must be inspected for unintended offence before being laid down on the page. Yet can you imagine tweaking the title of the book Why There Are No Good Men Left to Why There Are No Good Women Left - or Why There Are No Good Maori Left, for that matter? Even if the author of No Good Men intended to go beyond the cliche, she'd have been confident her female audience would be amused - and presumably didn't care if men were not.
Sunday, March 13, 2011 Boys are now among the most challenging groups with whom we work as psychotherapists. During the past two decades, boyhood has received special attention, and with good reason: boyhood is being radically redefined. As a result, the number of vulnerable boys who require our attention and care has increased significantly. Some of them are just entering kindergarten; others are graduating from high school or college and manoeuvering their way in a world of work that has increasingly fewer places for them; a decreasing number are in graduate school. Ever more are disconnected, disaffiliated and adrift.
Boys, Boys' Education, Boys' Health, Education Outcomes, Gender & Masculinities, Journal Articles, Resources: Boys, Resources: Boys' Education, Resources: Boys' Health, Resources: Education Outcomes, Resources: Gender & Masculinities, Resources: Unemployment, Resources: Work, Unemployment, Work in Resources, Topics & Issues Saturday, January 8, 2011 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 spread the word about the desperate need to help men and boys live longer, happier, healthier lives The Men's Network (UK) is developing a list of THE THIRTEEN WAYS THE WORLD DOESN’T WORK FOR MEN AND BOYS and welcome your feedback on the first draft of this document which they will be developing over the coming weeks and months
Sunday, June 27, 2010 In her National Post op-ed "Male Studies: A proposed curriculum" on April 14th 2010, Canadian commentator Barbara Kay talked about the exciting new discipline of Male Studies, a historical first, launched recently at Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y., USA.
In order to help The Foundation for Male Studies with its grant requests and fund raising efforts, and to increase its support channels, the foundation has created a brief yet important survey on the need for Male Studies. Please take just a few minutes and provide us with your feedback by visiting http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9TH97BP .
The first official Call for Papers for the First Annual Conference on Male Studies to be held in October, 2010 at Wagner College on Staten Island, New York can be found at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/37177 .