Teachers report thinking that if girls do better in math than boys, it is probably because of their innate ability and effort. But they also report that when boys do well in math, it is more likely due to parental support and society’s higher expectations for their success.

Media article by authors: https://theconversation.com/us-math-teachers-view-student-performance-differently-based-on-race-and-gender-241418

Journal Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361476X24000626

A sub dedicated to busting the myth that only men are violent.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WomenAreViolentToo

This is funny and on point! If only someone could edit more emotion into the voice it would be perfect "Be less triggered" 🤣

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS2vKXmnb/

https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrpa/10/2/199

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-012-0019-3

From Abstract:

[W]e hypothesized that sexual actions, particularly those involving casual sex, would be regretted more intensely by women than by men. ... [R]esults supported predicted psychological sex differences and these differences were localized in casual sex contexts.

Hence false allegations of sexual assault by women.

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https://youtu.be/Q7MkSpJk5tM?si=BCwilC7EdOYNWPOU

By the end of the documentary feminist filmmaker Cassie Jaye was not longer a feminist. The film featured Dr. Warren Farrell, Paul Elam, Janice Fiamengo and more.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/poverty-hurts-the-boys-the-most-inequality-at-the-intersection-of-class-and-gender/

5 major takeaways from the study (linked above):

• Only 14% of boys from low income backgrounds will get their bachelors in comparison to only 22% of girls from low income getting their bachelors from low income backgrounds

• Boys from low income are less likely to hold paid jobs in adult hood

• Boys from low income backgrounds are 10x more likely to be incarcerated than low income girls

• Boys are less likely to get married from low income backgrounds

• Boys raised in poverty are more likely to stay in poverty

Disclaimer - solid link, but in the summary of the study Richard Reeves did slip up when he mentioned earnings as an example of something women are falling behind in. We all know that ain’t true especially with the new Nobel Prize. Richard Reeves himself even made a video where he debunks the pay gap later on linked below.

https://youtu.be/W6IBFpVZIIE?si=fNjHi9SwIla1qmoG

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-46241-001

https://news.uoguelph.ca/2019/11/mothers-push-gender-stereotypes-more-than-fathers-study-reveals/

“We found that on an implicit level, moms tend to show a bias, and this bias considers girls expressing these emotions to be more favourable than boys expressing the same emotions,” said the psychology professor and lead author of the study.

Thomassin thought mothers and fathers would be more accepting of daughters showing sadness than sons and more accepting of sons showing anger than daughters.

Instead, the study found only mothers had differing attitudes based on gender, favouring daughters expressing sadness and anger more than sons.

Fathers showed no such preference, suggesting that fathers lacked this implicit bias related to the expression of the two emotions,” said Thomassin.”

Very remarkable writing by Vaknin.

"Time for #MenToo"

Prof. Dr. Sam Vaknin

https://in-sightpublishing.com/2023/07/22/mentoo/

... The pendulum has swung too far against men.

Young men are afraid to approach young women;

any signaling behavior, no matter how harmless, amounts to sexual harassment;

Flirting and courting in the real world are widely considered creepy and even criminalized.

Abstract
Compared to female rape victims, the literature addressing male rape victims remains a growing area of interest for counselors and scholars. This article aims to review the growing literature on male sexual assault victims. Specifically, the review will examine the literature on male victims of sexual assault in nine sections: (a) an overview of male sexual assault, (b) male rape myths, (c) prevalence, (d) responses to male victimization, (e) populations and perpetrators of male victimization, (f) risk factors, (g) reporting, (h) the impact of sexual assault on men, (i) help-seeking, and (j) implications for counseling. Empirical studies, case reports, and books are included in the review.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10135558/

https://lauda.ulapland.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/61748/Pasi\_Malmi\_v%E4it%F6skirja.pdf?sequence=1

A website, which tells what "Men's rights" is about in friendly manner for masculist propaganda (specially in those countries, where feminism has a powerful monopoly in gender-equality activism).
https://masculism.wiki/

Abstract

In several recent papers the sex difference in regret predicted by sexual strategies theory has been supported: men more than women report regret passing up short-term sexual opportunities (inaction regret), while women regret having had sexual encounters (action regret). However, the adaptive function of regret, to improve future behavioral choices, has not been tested. In this first longitudinal test of behavioral change following regret, we consider whether regret actually results in adaptive shifts of behavior: will men who regret passing up sex engage in more short-term sex following regret? Will women who regret short-term encounters either choose better quality partners, reduce number of one-night stands or shift their strategy to long-term relationships? Across two waves (NT1 = 399, 65.4% women and NT2 = 222, 66.2% women) students responded to questions about casual sex action regret and inaction regret, along with possible outcomes, intrapersonal traits, and concurrent contextual predictors. There was no clear evidence for the proposed functional shifts in sexual behavior. Casual sex regret was associated with respondent sex and stable individual differences, such as sociosexual attitudes, regret processing and metacognitions, but the effect of these predictors were not consistent across the two waves. Among the tested concurrent contextual predictors, sexual disgust was the most consistent across waves. Regret is considered a gauge of the value and quality of the short-term sexual encounter. However, tentatively we conclude that after this first test of function using longitudinal data, we find no evidence of a mating strategy shifting effect following sexual regret.

free fulltext: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704921998333

https://medium.com/illumination/the-problem-with-women-empowerment-in-the-media-a7776b742167

https://rdcu.be/ddEaV

https://bnblegal.com/news/not-allowing-spouse-to-have-sexual-intercourse-for-long-amounts-mental-cruelty-allahabad-high-court/

This study shows women have LESS empathy towards men than they did in 1984. Evidence our society's demonization of men over the past few decades is working all too well.

Judgments About Male Victims of Sexual Assault by Women: A 35-Year Replication Study - Emma K. PeConga, Jacqueline E. Spector, Ronald E. Smith, 2022 (sagepub.com)

the average age that humans had children throughout the past 250,000 years is 26.9. Furthermore, fathers were consistently older, at 30.7 years on average, than mothers, at 23.2 years on average, but the age gap has shrunk in the past 5,000 years, with the study's most recent estimates of maternal age averaging 26.4 years. The shrinking gap seems to largely be due to mothers having children at older ages.

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https://phys.org/news/2023-01-reveals-average-age-conception-men.html

By

Maria Laura Bettinsoli, Alexandra Suppes, and Jaime L. Napier

Abstract

Dominant accounts of sexual prejudice posit that negative attitudes toward nonheterosexual individuals are stronger for male (vs. female) targets, higher among men (vs. women), and driven, in part, by the perception that gay men and lesbian women violate traditional gender norms. We test these predictions in 23 countries, representing both Western and non-Western societies. Results show that (1) gay men are disliked more than lesbian women across all countries; (2) after adjusting for endorsement of traditional gender norms, the relationship between participant gender and sexual prejudice is inconsistent across Western countries, but men (vs. women) in non-Western countries consistently report more negative attitudes toward gay men; and (3) a significant association between gender norm endorsement and sexual prejudice across countries, but it was absent or reversed in China, India, and South Korea. Taken together, this work suggests that gender and sexuality may be more loosely associated in some non-Western contexts.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550619887785

BACKGROUND

Numerous studies have reported declines in semen quality and other markers of male reproductive health. Our previous meta-analysis reported a significant decrease in sperm concentration (SC) and total sperm count (TSC) among men from North America–Europe–Australia (NEA) based on studies published during 1981–2013. At that time, there were too few studies with data from South/Central America–Asia–Africa (SAA) to reliably estimate trends among men from these continents.

OBJECTIVE AND RATIONALE

The aim of this study was to examine trends in sperm count among men from all continents. The broader implications of a global decline in sperm count, the knowledge gaps left unfilled by our prior analysis and the controversies surrounding this issue warranted an up-to-date meta-analysis.

SEARCH METHODS

We searched PubMed/MEDLINE and EMBASE to identify studies of human SC and TSC published during 2014–2019. After review of 2936 abstracts and 868 full articles, 44 estimates of SC and TSC from 38 studies met the protocol criteria. Data were extracted on semen parameters (SC, TSC, semen volume), collection year and covariates. Combining these new data with data from our previous meta-analysis, the current meta-analysis includes results from 223 studies, yielding 288 estimates based on semen samples collected 1973–2018. Slopes of SC and TSC were estimated as functions of sample collection year using simple linear regression as well as weighted meta-regression. The latter models were adjusted for predetermined covariates and examined for modification by fertility status (unselected by fertility versus fertile), and by two groups of continents: NEA and SAA. These analyses were repeated for data collected post-2000. Multiple sensitivity analyses were conducted to examine assumptions, including linearity.

OUTCOMES

Overall, SC declined appreciably between 1973 and 2018 (slope in the simple linear model: –0.87 million/ml/year, 95% CI: –0.89 to –0.86; P < 0.001). In an adjusted meta-regression model, which included two interaction terms [time × fertility group (P = 0.012) and time × continents (P = 0.058)], declines were seen among unselected men from NEA (–1.27; –1.78 to –0.77; P < 0.001) and unselected men from SAA (–0.65; –1.29 to –0.01; P = 0.045) and fertile men from NEA (–0.50; –1.00 to –0.01; P = 0.046). Among unselected men from all continents, the mean SC declined by 51.6% between 1973 and 2018 (–1.17: –1.66 to –0.68; P < 0.001). The slope for SC among unselected men was steeper in a model restricted to post-2000 data (–1.73: –3.23 to –0.24; P = 0.024) and the percent decline per year doubled, increasing from 1.16% post-1972 to 2.64% post-2000. Results were similar for TSC, with a 62.3% overall decline among unselected men (–4.70 million/year; –6.56 to –2.83; P < 0.001) in the adjusted meta-regression model. All results changed only minimally in multiple sensitivity analyses.

WIDER IMPLICATIONS

This analysis is the first to report a decline in sperm count among unselected men from South/Central America–Asia–Africa, in contrast to our previous meta-analysis that was underpowered to examine those continents. Furthermore, data suggest that this world-wide decline is continuing in the 21st century at an accelerated pace. Research on the causes of this continuing decline and actions to prevent further disruption of male reproductive health are urgently needed.

https://academic.oup.com/humupd/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humupd/dmac035/6824414

ABSTRACT

Little empirical data exists regarding men’s preferences for therapist gender, including what predicts these preferences, and the impact they may have on satisfaction with care.

To address this, data were drawn from an online survey of Australian men (n = 2002; aged 16–85; M = 43.8 years) reflecting on their preferences for and experiences of mental health treatment. Participants responded to items assessing demographics alongside their preference for therapist gender, reason for this preference and items on masculinity and treatment satisfaction, which were entered into a predictive model.

Findings indicated that the majority (60.5%) of respondents did not indicate a preference, while equal proportions preferred male (19.1%) and female therapists (20.4%). Undergraduate-educated, non-heterosexual, and more masculine-identifying men were all more likely to prefer a male therapist.

Severely depressed men preferred a female therapist. Finally, seeing a therapist who matched one’s gender preference was a significant predictor of satisfaction with therapy, while feeling less manly in attending therapy mediated this relationship.

While the majority of men reported no gender preference for their therapist, for those who do, the underpinnings and implications warrant consideration and discussion. Limitations and clinical and research implications are discussed.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09515070.2021.1940866

KEYWORDS:

• Men’s mental health

• help-seeking

• masculinity

• client preferences

• gender

• satisfaction with therapy

Do teacher and classroom characteristics affect the way in which girls and boys are graded?

A multilevel analysis of student–teacher matched data

Abstract

Teachers’ evaluations of students do not consider only academic competence, but are imbued with social considerations related to individual teacher and student characteristics, their interactions, and the surrounding context. The aim of this paper is understanding the extent to which teachers grade girls more generously than boys, and which characteristics of teachers and classrooms are likely to reduce this gender grading gap. We use Italian data from INVALSI-SNV, providing information on 10th-grade students linked with their teachers. The analysis relies on grade equation models in multilevel regression analysis, with students as first level, teachers/classrooms as second level, and schools as third level. Results show that, when comparing students who have identical subject-specific competence, teachers are more likely to give higher grades to girls. Furthermore, they demonstrate for the first time that this grading premium favouring girls is systemic, as teacher and classroom characteristics play a negligible role in reducing it.

Keywords: Teachers’ grades gendergrading mismatch academic performance education social inequalities

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2022.2122942

Abstract

Background:

Concerns remain about the human reproductive toxicity of the widespread per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during early stages of development.

Objectives:

We examined associations between maternal plasma PFAS levels during early pregnancy and male offspring reproductive function in adulthood.

Methods:

The study included 864 young men (age range:18.9–21.2 y) from the Fetal Programming of Semen Quality (FEPOS) cohort established between 2017 and 2019. Plasma samples from their mothers, primarily from the first trimester, were retrieved from the Danish National Biobank and levels of 15 PFAS were measured. Seven PFAS had detectable levels above the limit of detection in >80% of the samples and were included in analyses. Semen quality, testicular volume, and levels of reproductive hormones and PFAS were assessed in the young men. We used weighted quantile sum (WQS) regression to estimate the associations between combined exposure to maternal PFAS and reproductive function, and negative binomial regression to estimate the associations of single substances, while adjusting for a range of a priori–defined fetal and postnatal risk factors.

Results:

By a 1-unit increase in the WQS index, combined maternal PFAS exposure was associated with lower sperm concentration (−8%; 95% CI: −16%, −1%), total sperm count (−10%; 95% CI: −17%, −2%), and a higher proportion of nonprogressive and immotile sperm (5%; 95% CI: 1%, 8%) in the young men. Different PFAS contributed to the associations with varying strengths; however, perfluoroheptanoic acid was identified as the main contributor in the analyses of all three outcomes despite the low concentration. We saw no clear association between exposure to maternal PFAS and testicular volume or reproductive hormones.

Discussion:

In a sample of young men from the general Danish population, we observed consistent inverse associations between exposure to maternal PFAS and semen quality. The study needs to be replicated in other populations, taking combined exposure, as well as emerging short-chain PFAS, into consideration. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP10285

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP10285

Quotes from Fitz-Gibbon, K., Meyer, S., Maher, J., & Roberts, S. (2022). Adolescent family violence in Australia: A national study of prevalence, history of childhood victimisation and impacts (Research report, 15/2022). ANROWS. Link

The report analyses the results of a survey of 16-20 year olds. Because this is grey literature rather than a journal article it lacks an abstract. Some quotes:

23 per cent (n=762) of those assigned female at birth had used violence, compared to 14 per cent (n=234) of those assigned male at birth. This difference was statistically significant (χ2(1)=47.48, p<0.001).

AND

Young people whose sex assigned at birth was female were statistically more likely to report that they had perpetrated both physical/sexual violence and non-physical forms of abuse against their family members compared to males (38% vs. 29%, χ2 (2)=10.63, p<0.01)

AND

Female young people were statistically more likely to use violence against multiple family members than males (46% vs. 38%, χ2(1)=4.31, p<0.05).

Abstract

How did #MeToo alter the cost of collaboration between women and men? I study research collaborations involving junior female academic economists and show they start fewer new research projects after #MeToo. The decline is driven largely by fewer collaborations with new male co-authors at the same institution. I show that the drop in collaborations is concentrated in universities where the perceived risk of sexual harassment accusations for men is high - that is, when both sexual harassment policies are more ambiguous exposing men to a larger variety of claims and the number of public sexual harassment incidents is high. The results suggest that the social movement is associated with increased cost of collaboration that disadvantaged the career opportunities of women.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105976

Abstract

Preventing intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health priority. An important component of designing prevention programs is developing an understanding of how media portrayals of health issues influence public opinion and policy. To better understand the ways in which media images may be informing our understanding of IPV, this study content analyzed portrayals of IPV in news media articles. Stratified media outlets were used to obtain a representative sample of daily newspapers based on their designated market areas. Researchers created constructed months using weeks from each season across a 2-year period. The first part of the study investigated quantitative differences in the coverage of female and male perpetrators (n = 395) and identified several areas where coverage differed. The second part of the study qualitatively examined coverage of female perpetrators (n = 61) to provide a richer description of such coverage. This study contributes to our understanding of female perpetrators and how these portrayals may contribute to the larger gender symmetry debate surrounding female aggressors. Implications for public health policy and research are discussed.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260513520231

Abstract

We estimated the degree of gender discrimination in Sweden across occupations using a correspondence study design. Our analysis of employer responses to more than 3,200 fictitious job applications across 15 occupations revealed that overall positive employer response rates were higher for women than men by almost 5 percentage points. We found that this gap was driven by employer responses in female-dominated occupations. Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245513

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08862605211062990#.YdPt01KkROU.twitter

Abstract

Sexual assault of men by women has received increasing attention in recent years, as has research on rape myths about male victims. This study is a cross-generational replication of a 1984 study of college students’ judgments about male and female victims in a scenario involving a sexual assault carried out by male or female assailants. The 1984 data (n = 172) were compared with those of a 2019 cohort (n = 372) in a 2 (participant gender) x 2 (assailant gender) x 2 (victim gender) x 2 (cohort) factorial design to assess potential generational changes in perceptions of victims. Judgments by male participants of male victims of assaults carried out by women changed notably over time. The 2019 male cohort was less likely to judge that the victim initiated or encouraged the incident (40% in 1984 compared with 15% in 2019) and derived pleasure from it (47.4% in 1984 compared with 5.8% in 2019). In contrast, the 2019 female cohort was more likely to attribute victim encouragement (26.9% compared with 4.3% in 1984) and pleasure to the male victim (25% in 2019 compared with 5% in 1984). A similar gender pattern occurred in judgments of how stressful the event was for the male victim. Analysis of the 2019 data revealed that overall, despite scientific and cultural shifts that have occurred over the past three decades, participants continued to judge the male victim of assault by a female to have been more encouraging and to have experienced more pleasure and less stress than in any other assailant/victim gender combination. Results are discussed in relation to gendered stereotypical beliefs and male rape myths, as well as possible sensitization to power differentials inspired by the #MeToo movement. We emphasize the need for greater awareness and empirical attention to abuse that runs counter to preconceived notions about sexual victimization.

Meritocracy at Work?: Merit-Based Reward Systems and Gender Wage Inequality

Eunmi Mun, Naomi Kodama, Meritocracy at Work?: Merit-Based Reward Systems and Gender Wage Inequality, Social Forces, 2021;, soab083, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soab083

Abstract:

It is widely believed that meritocratic employment practices reduce gender inequality by limiting managers’ reliance on nonmerit factors, such as biases. An emerging stream of research, however, questions the belief, arguing that meritocratic practices often fail to reduce inequality and may paradoxically increase it. Despite these opposing predictions, we still lack convincing empirical findings to adjudicate between them. Typically relying on data from a single organization or industry, most previous studies suffer from limited generalizability and cannot properly account for the large variation in the implementation of merit-based reward systems across organizations, let alone identify the origins of the variation. We attempt to overcome the limitations by constructing large-scale linked employer–employee data and by investigating the impact of merit-based systems on different components of compensation. Analyzing our panel data on 400 large Japanese companies and 400,000 employees of these companies over 12 years, we found evidence in support of the meritocracy paradox. The gender gap in bonus pay was greater, not smaller, in workplaces with a merit-based system compared to workplaces without it. But this paradoxical expansion of the gender gap was observed only in bonus pay but not in total compensation. We further found that a transition to merit-based systems has varying impacts on different employee groups; it widened the gender pay gap for young workers but reduced the gap for managers. Our research contributes to understanding gender inequality in times of shifting employment relations and the rise of meritocracy.