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Hold up: mindfulness training as a complementary therapy in cancer treatment might not work for everyone.
Too much research focuses on “fixing women”, so let’s hear the male line on what needs to be done.
Breast reduction surgery is popular now, but skin reduction may be the next big thing.
Is the decline of the corner barbershop another indicator that male friendships and community ties are eroding? Or could it simply mean that concepts of masculinity are shifting?
At a time when thin, muscly men dominate popular media, male ‘plus size’ models are all too rare. Yet the average Australian man is not lean and stringy – imagine if he saw himself in ad campaigns?
Women receive less pay than men, especially at a top management level, and are less represented on the board of organisations, a new study has found.
The tiltyard – like the football pitch – was an important arena in which men could demonstrate their prowess in front of a vast audience.
A new study finds that men who earn most of the dough are willing to give it up for more time at home.
How successful a mother or career scientist one can become depends on how one’s available time is divided between the two activities.
Despite ongoing efforts, achieving gender equality struggles because it is ignored or compartmentalised rather than interwoven throughout.
The growing pressure on men to have the perfect body is too often forgotten but could be having serious health consequences.
“Get your hand off it,” says the girl in the ad. Here is a cowgirl type telling men not to play with anything while driving. It’s the mobile that she means, ha ha. Why should we be concerned? Because yet…
You only have to walk down the aisle of a toy shop to see that young girls really love pink. This has some parents worried. They are concerned that pink is bad for their daughters. One engineer in the…
Sperm quality is determined from factors as early as the foetus stage of life, according to an international study. The study…
“Record-breaking Heatwave”. “Australia Burns”. “Heroes of the Flames”. Headlines such as these will be familiar to anyone who has lived though a bad bushfire season in Australia. These past two weeks have…
Any hopes that Lleyton Hewitt could revisit past glories in his 2013 Australian Open campaign were dashed last night when he lost in straight sets to Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic. It now seems impossible…
Young men are more likely to fall asleep while driving than their older counterparts. A Monash University study looked at…
There’s this gene that about half of all people carry. It’s a pretty nasty gene – it massively increases the risk of the carrier being a murderer or a murder victim, going to jail or dying in an accident…
Having a healthy glowing skin colour is more important to women than a rugged jaw line or masculine features. Researchers…
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Professor of Sociology, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Research Assistant at the Centre for Adult Social Care Research, Cardiff University
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Emeritus Professor, Film and Media Studies in English, Arizona State University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Monash University
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Masculinities Scholar, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Kristen Barber is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Durham University
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Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences, University College Dublin
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, MacEwan University
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Head of Education and Human Resources Programs at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Trustee, California Institute of Technology
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Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Cambridge