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 International Wellbeing Study
The School of Information and Social Sciences at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand has been conducting a large online international study investigating peoples’ wellbeing called The International Wellbeing Study. This study has been running since March 2009 and basically investigates peoples' wellbeing over the course of one year.
This study is completely anonymous, easy to do, takes about 25 to 30 minutes for each assessment point, and participants don’t have to give any of their personal details. The only participation requirements is that participants are at least 16 years old and that they agree to fill out these questions every three months for a year; five times in total. To participate and/or to find out more about the study, go to http://www.wellbeingstudy.com.
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 International Men's Day 2009
Men and Fathers, Men’s Groups, Fatherhood Practitioners, and Fatherhood organizations throughout our global village will observe International Men’s Day on Thursday, 19 November 2009. Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Australia, India, United States, Singapore, United Kingdom, Malta, South Africa, Georgia, New Zealand, Moldova, Germany, Holland and Brazil are a sample of the nations around the globe that are planning activities on International Men’s Day 2009 which will honor the selfless sacrifices of men and celebrate men’s invaluable contributions to families, communities, and society.
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If they feel 'offended,' you're fired
A college professor in Georgia is whirling in confusion right now, reprimanded and apparently threatened with termination without any specific charges, hearings or evidence of wrongdoing – only the school administration's allegation that he "offended" someone. The troubles for Professor Thomas Thibeault of East Georgia College seem to have begun during an Aug. 5 faculty sexual harassment training seminar, when he questioned the assertion – as he understood it – being presented by Mary Smith, the school's vice president for legal affairs, that the feelings of the offended constituted proof of offensive behavior.
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Men's Health SA Media Watch Report
In November 2007, Greg Andresen was contracted by Men’s Health SA (at that time the South Australian Men’s Health Alliance - SAMHA) to conduct a one-day-a-week Media Watch role on behalf of SAMHA and its collaborative partners, the Men’s Health Information & Resource Centre and the Australasian Men’s Health Forum. This role was to involve the critique, analysis and, when appropriate, challenging of mass media statements and commentary and other forms of institutional, academic and government literature and media that:
- depicted men or boys or masculinity in an unfair, negative or disparaging way
- were misleading, inaccurate, or prejudicial towards men and boys
- detracted from a general positive affirmation of men, boys, and masculinity
- undermined the endeavour to approach men and boy’s health and issues in an intelligent, respectful, positive, equitable and constructive way.
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Men's Health Briefs
A series of short articles on a WIDE range of men's health issues - from John Ashfield. (These articles can be reproduced following normal protocols). Scroll down - there are over 50 articles and more added each few weeks.
 Why men are in poor health
Fatherhood under siege
Men, work & discrimination
Men - the disposable
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 Matters for Men
A small yet information-packed book containing a wide selection of health information on male concerns. This inexpensive book - and other men's publications by John Ashfield - can be ordered from Peacock Publications.
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Men of the Global South - A Reader, ed. Adam Jones, 2006
This Reader is designed to fill a glaring gap in the proliferating literature on gender and development, gender and international political economy, and gender and conflict. While there is now a broad and sophisticated feminist literature on the lives and experiences of Third World women and their role in development, there has been a tendency either to ignore men as gendered subjects, or to consign them to negative and stereotypical gender roles, often as victimisers and exploiters of Third World women.
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