A new wave of research shows how working-class young men are changing their behaviour. But some remain hostile to the term “toxic masculinity” and see it as a vehicle for shaming men.
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The recent survey confirmed what many people think – men prefer to stand when peeing. But is that the best way?
This is an intuitive finding, but we had little empirical evidence of it until now. It highlights the critical role fathers play in steering boys towards healthier expressions of masculinity.
While there are small differences between male and female brains, most of us have a mix of both.
Is it genes, chromosomes, hormones, the immune sytem – or behaviour – that makes men more susceptible to the deadly disease?
It has been predicted we will need 1,627 more classes for primary students nationally before 2025, and to respond to this demand we need to fix the gender imbalance in the teacher workforce.
Equal rights are not enough. Inequality exists in our minds, in our biases and prejudices, and that remains to be fixed.
An ancient sexual conflict over mitochondrial inheritance may be responsible for the evolution of the two sexes as we know them.
Men are struggling to cope with the pressures of modern life – but they alone cannot solve the problem.
During the 1980s, press coverage of South African family murders suggested that something was ‘wrong’ with white society – and with the white Afrikaans men who were usually seen as perpetrators.
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Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation.
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