Gender Equivalence

Don’t worry, I’m still alive and still beavering away at the book, in between other writing assignments.

Excerpted from my main website:

I’ve just had an article published over on Men’s News Daily. It’s a great publication for people interested in gender politics and the growing men’s rights movement. Some of you will know that I have been working on a book on gender politics (see the gender equivalence subsite site for more info)for the past few years. It’s also the first time that I’ve written for a website rather than a print mag in over a year, and it’s a funny feeling to get back into the fast paced dynamic of web publishing. I hope that I’ll be working with MND a lot in the future.

An interesting article that I came across the other day. It’s a good dose of comon sense and a useful refute to all of the “But, it’s been shown that women only earn 75% of what men do” nonsense.

From the article:

“Full-time employed males (whether fathers or not) on average work eight hours a week more than full-time employed females. According to the International Labor Organization, the average American father works 51 hours a week, whereas those mothers of young children who do work full time (themselves a minority) work a 41-hour week. Women earn 76% of what men do for working 84% (not 100%) as many hours. “

Is Pay a Function of Gender Bias? (link to the full article)

This might be of interest to people in the UK:

As most of you will know, the government website sports an official petition system. Using this system, members of the public can set up web-based petitions which, apparently, the goverment will monitor.

I spotted a good one today, on the subject of extending provisions of shelter facilties to include all victims of domestic abuse. Currently, there exists almost no assistance for men who find themselves in this position.

Click on this link to read more about the petition. Consider signing up if you are a UK citizen and agree with what is being proposed. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/DVJUSTICE/

About half the people reading that statement might be left scratching their heads, wondering why this is significant. In a nutshell, the police and government statistics show that the problem of, so called, “battered husbands” is extremely significant. Some studies estimate that 17% of all victims of domestic violence are male. For some more background on some these issues, I invite you to check out this blog posting on another male rights blog:

Two interesting articles that I stumbled onto today. Reading articles like these, written by women, and representative of such a reasonable perspective on gender issues makes my day.

Are Fathers’ Rights a Factor in Male Suicide? By Wendy McElroy

Interesting and balanced overview of some father’s rights issues. Worth a read, IMO.

Wendy also has an interesting website called ifeminists.com which describes a sort of libertarian third wave equity feminism. It’s feministic but at least makes an attempt to include male/female equality as opposed to the typical feminist ‘women good/men bad’ dogma. As the content of the above article would suggest, her ideology includes some acknowledgment of both male rights issues and criticism of feminism. Just a shame that she has to call it “feminism” at all, IMO.

Male abortion rights? by Marianne Bossert

Another nice article. This touches upon a topic that I am developing for the book.

Last month saw two new, separate but connected, developments in my research for the book.

The first, and most outwardly apparent, was the creation of this website. I’ll use the site both to self-publish articles on the subject of gender politics and to post progress information on the book.

As soon as you are about to dismiss something, don’t.

The other change was that I decided to have a look around the web to see what other people who were interested male rights were doing. This is a big change for me as, frankly, I don’t do much reading on the subject of gender politics as I prefer to concentrate my studies upon the more fundamental aspects of humanities and social science research.