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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,…
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…
What do men need? Well today, November 19th we get acknowledged with International Men’s Day. Not only is the media going beyond sex and sports as the believed primary concern of men, so are governments. With the United States and Europe recognizing men and our concerns we are given more legitimacy. From – Men’s Daily,…
Sociology professor Michael Kimmel speaks about being a man on Dad’s Unplugged. His solution is that we need a strong dose of being an entrepreneur, his ‘self made man’. Kimmel claims our current recession is so tough because traditional male industries are leaving. He goes on to suggest that our traditional model of being a…
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…
