In her New York Times article “The Declining Demand for Men”, Nancy Folbre says there is something that makes this recession unique for men: The Great Recession has sometimes been dubbed the Mancession because it drove unemployment among men higher than unemployment among women. Because men tend to work in more cyclical industries than women, [...]

Frederick Marx, the man who brought us the film Hoop Dreams, is finishing up two films that pertain to men’s emotional health. Veteran’s Journey Home is about our vets returning home from the Middle East. In the next few years 1.7 million vets will return home from the Middle East. Whether official PTSD victims or [...]

If there weren’t already enough reasons to shift how we show up as men, Steven Chong in his article speaks about how a father’s absence increases the risk of poverty and crime. The principle cause of poverty in the U.S. is absent fathers. Fathers in households build the self-esteem of children, pulling them out of [...]

Guest post by Chris Kyle We’ve been keeping up with what the media has been saying lately about us men. The information and opinions being laid out boil down to this: Are men ready to take a hard look at redefining what it means to be a man in today’s world?  Are men falling behind [...]

200 men will discuss sexual abuse on Oprah, airing Nov 5th and Nov 12th. Now that Oprah is doing shows on this taboo subject, the impact of boys being abused is coming out. I know from my work with men that, for some, the abuse they experienced as a child continues to affect them as [...]

“Women respond instinctively to strength. When a man stands up to a woman’s nonsense, she knows he can protect her from her worst enemy: herself.” From Alison Armstrong – September 15, 2010, interview. Image by George Eastman House via Flickr Men, did you get that? And this is from a woman—a woman who has created [...]

The recent Newsweek article, Men’s Lib, speaks to the change society, and men in particular, is going through. As I a man I can say the world is changing around us. As a gender and as individuals we are being forced to keep up – I would say grow up. Image by thaigov via Flickr [...]

There is a website that will tell you – www.goodmenproject.com. On June 1st a group of men and women launched this site as a ‘man’s magazine’ that “takes men seriously.” A Boston Globe article explains how The Good Men Project came into existence. The article mentions how other men’s magazines are struggling, and yet the [...]