Gender roles

The Top 10 Issues Affecting Men in 2014

The Good Men Project | 04.16.2014

Men’s roles are changing almost faster than we can keep up with the change. Here are ten reasons that make the conversation about men so incredibly important. → Read More

Family + Men

A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink

One Dad Struggles to Define his Family Role

The Good Men Project | 01.31.2014

In my search for accurate descriptors of my role in my family’s life, I have settled on this one (for now): primary parental unit. It is clear and descriptive. I am a father, a parent, but without the traditional absentee breadwinner connotation that ‘father’ holds. While my wife backs me up as a co-parent, I am the primary lead on most of the home-making and child-rearing stuff. → Read More

Men

How Are the Evolving Roles of Women Shaping Men’s Modern Realities?

Cara P. Lemieux | 12.10.2013

Most of us are aware that the changes and shifts in women’s lives don’t happen in a vacuum, and therefor also directly impact men’s lives. But exactly how that impact is felt, and what it translates to, is something that only men can aptly explain themselves. So we decided to ask men some of the questions that are often directed at women, everything from “how do you do it all?” to “what keeps you up at night?” Their answers illuminate how the changes in our modern America are shifting men’s realities, along with women’s. → Read More

Family + Men

4 Ways a Child Taught Me to Be a Man

The Good Men Project | 11.19.2013

I hadn’t planned on being a father when I was 24. Honestly, I was still figuring out how to get better at pretending to be a grown up. It was only a few years later that it unraveled and we split. Single for the first time as an adult I found myself having the space to learn whatever answers I could discover—answers about life, women, and being true to myself. So what did I learn from my weekends and time alone with my daughter? This: → Read More

Headlines from the Front Lines

Male Bosses Preferred, Expectations for the First Female President, and a Must-See Clip from Scandal

Allison Maloney | 11.15.2013

From discussing the female soldier experience on Veteran’s Day to assessing how to use our power wisely, it’s been a great week for discussions about modern women. These conversations continued around the web, so we selected some of the best for you to enjoy. → Read More

Work

Breaking the Mold

Wife, Mother, Soldier

Cara P. Lemieux | 11.11.2013

One woman, Lt. Col. Chris Cieslak is an Active Drilling Reservist (serving in Troop Program Unit status) and has over 22 years of services in the Army Reserves. She was commissioned in 1991 has served two terms of deployment, and is a wife and mother of two. While she is oversees, her husband is the primary caregiver for their two children, and they continue to maintain those roles even when she returns to the states.
She shares her experience as a woman in the military, and explains how she manages being a soldier and a mother, as well describing her struggles with returning to the realities of civilian life. → Read More

Men

Men Are Changing: Let’s Understand Why

Andrew Smiler | 11.05.2013

Cultures change over time, and so do the expectations and the behavior of the people in those cultures. Approximately 100 years ago, most American men worked for themselves or in small businesses, more people lived in rural areas than urban areas (and there were no suburbs), the median age of first marriage for men was 25, and mandatory public education through grade 6 was new. That was controversial; many people asked what would happen when boys spent their days sitting still in a setting dominated by female teachers instead of doing physical work in the company of men (sound familiar?). → Read More

Men

We Are What Feminists Look Like

Marc Peters + Sacchi Patel | 10.18.2013

For us being a man means, and has meant for a very long time, treating everyone with respect, being unafraid to show our love and appreciation of our family and friends, and never abusing the privilege that society affords us. So many men are afraid to hug each other. They are afraid to tell each other that they love them, even in the brotherly sense. → Read More

Men + Work

In Today’s Workplace Is It a Negotiation or a Battle of the Sexes?

Dr. Peggy Drexler | 10.16.2013

Every study indicates millennial males are an evolved model of masculinity: kinder, more accepting, unintimidated by dirty diapers, comfortable with sharing power with a new generation of high-achieving females. But how well do we really know them – particularly in the workplace? The new generation of women and work have been peeled, prodded and parsed from every angle – their education, their numbers, their issues, their needs, their frustrations. But you would be hard pressed to find one illuminating equivalent study on the male side of the gender divide. → Read More

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