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  No Country for Burly Men (USA) by Christina Hoff Sommers
Nearly 80 percent of the jobs lost since December 2007, in fields like construction and manufacturing, were held by men. Thus, to respond to actual economic needs, the Obama stimulus plan would have skewed toward male-dominated industries. But feminist advocacy groups in Washington hijacked the stimulus, getting the administration to add funding to boost employment in (still-growing) fields dominated by women, like health care, education, and social services. Four months after the stimulus bill's passage, the lion's share of funding is not addressing America's real unemployment challenges.
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Hiding the Truth About the Pay Gap Between Men and Women (USA)
A study on the gender wage gap has been removed from the website of the Labor Department — and the timing is suspicious. Recognizing the importance of unbiased research on the pay gap, the Labor Department recently contracted with CONSAD Research Corporation for a review of more than 50 existing studies as well as a new economic and statistical analysis of the pay gap. CONSAD’s Report found that the vast majority of the pay gap is due to several identifiable factors and that the remainder may be due to other specific factors they were not able to measure. The Labor Department’s conclusion was that the gender pay gap was the result of a multitude of factors and that the “raw wage gap should not be used as the basis for [legislative] correction. If the debate over pay equity is to be at the forefront of the Congressional agenda, then the Labor Department and the new administration need to acknowledge that the overwhelming evidence is that the pay gap is not based primarily on employer discrimination.
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Work is fairly divided between men and women
Research on time use, including research by ABS (1997) and the Office for the Status of Women (Bittman, 1991), has focused heavily on gender differences, and we continue this tradition. Previous research has commonly emphasised that, in couple households where both partners have paid jobs, women do most of the housework. This has often been interpreted very explicitly as an unfair or even exploitative division of labour. In this article we suggest that, while the data permit this interpretation, other interpretations are also reasonable. In particular, if time budgets or activities are divided into two main groups those which people are more or less required to undertake and may or may not enjoy and leisure activities which are clearly a matter of choice, then it appears that women and men, including those in couples, spend approximately the same amount of time on required activities, and so, by inference, have approximately the same amount of leisure or discretionary time.
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 We find the one-sided scale more appropriate for our purposes
In 2007 the World Economic Forum produced a report called "The Global Gender Gap Report 2006" (author: Zahidi, S). This is a great example of how the "gender gap" has been defined so as to only examine areas in which women fare worse than men, and ignore areas in which men fare worse than women.
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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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