Boots The Chemist has made a mildly sexist TV ad (not the one pictured) with the tagline “when he’s ill and you don’t have time to be –  get cold and flu products for just 99p at Boots”. BUT ARE  THESE ADS ABOUT MEN AND MAN FLU REALLY SEXIST AND DOES IT REALLY MATTER FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE? [...]

Young Men without a male role model are 3 times more likely to feel depressed according to new research on the positive impact of male role models from the Prince’s Trust. (Image shows male mentors in Brighton  & Hove from abandofbrothers) The research gives greater weight to mental health charity Mind’s campaign for a mental [...]

  Teenage boys and young men age 15-24 in England & Wales are two and a half times as likely to die young than women and girls of the same age according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundations Poverty Site.     More than fifty 15-24 year olds die young in England & Wales every week and [...]

                British men are saying ‘arse’ to good health as the ‘Jim Royle Generation’ saw the average weight of a British bloke go up by a stone (7.7kg) in just 15 years according to new research on men’s weight. Two thirds of British men are now overweight and [...]

The question of why women earn less than men on average continues to be a regular media feature. The gap between women’s pay and men’s pay in Brighton & Hove is considerably smaller than the national average according to the city’s draft JSNA On average,  full-time female workers earn £467.10 per week compared with £527.30 per week [...]

Three quarters of GPs aren’t aware of Government guidance on a man’s right to have a test for prostate cancer and 15% of GPs don’t support that right according to John Neate, chief executive of The Prostate Cancer Charity. You can read the full article on The Great Prostate Scandal here. John Neate said “The scandalous [...]

We can only fulfill on our commitment to create A City That Works For Everyone – Men And Boys Included – if the public sector locally delivers on its Duty To Involve and engage with men and women equally. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the city’s leaders are not involving men as effectively as they are [...]

A key measure of A City That Works For Everyone – Men And Boys Included – is the level of service it provides for all its residents. This means providing services that are appropriate and accessible to both women and men. The city’s Parent Support Strategy acknowledges that universal services reach ‘only limited numbers of [...]

If we are to be more effective at helping Men and Boys to get both the access to and the outcomes from services they deserve then we need to recognize that Men and Boys are a distinct group with specific needs. The systematic resistance to identifying men as a hard-to-reach group with a distinct set [...]

Two of the most telling statistics to emerge from our research in 2010 is the fact that while a poor boy in our city will die on average THIRTEEN YEARS earlier than a rich girl, women’s projects in the city receive nearly THIRTEEN HUNDRED times more funding than men’s projects. Furthermore, research by the Council [...]