“True Dads” featuring Joe Jones & CFUF from Center For Urban Families on Vimeo. Joseph T. Jones, Jr. Mr. Joseph T. Jones, Jr. is president and founder of the Center For Urban Families. Prior to founding CFUF, Mr. Jones developed and directed the Men’s Services program for the federally funded Baltimore Healthy Start initiative and…
Read moreEquality? Not with sentencing to prisons
If you’re a convicted criminal, the best thing you can have going for you might be your gender. A new study by Sonja Starr, an assistant law professor at the University of Michigan, found that men are given much higher sentences than women convicted of the same crimes in federal court. The study found…
Read moreWhat feminism has come to
‘Princeton mom’ is more progressive than many critics in the media by S.E. CUPP – New York Daily News When Susan Patton wrote a letter to The Daily Princetonian last week, she probably had no concept of the controversy it would create. What she later described as merely “some good advice from a Jewish mother” has…
Read moreRape Culture?
I found an interesting article on Slate the other day. I’m curious to hear your thoughts My bad sex wasn’t rape The outcry over a recent “Girls” episode startled me. What happened to a woman’s sexual agency? BY ANNA MARCH Defining regret over a consensual experience as rape conveys the message that women who experiment with…
Read moreBoys Are At The Back Of The Class
Boys are lagging behind girls in school; on average, they get worse grades, take fewer advanced classes and are less likely to graduate. To find out why boys are taking a back seat in education, host Michel Martin speaks with Christina Hoff Sommers, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of ‘The War…
Read moreFrustrated: Black American Men in Brazil
Why You’re Not Married
I found this interesting article yestewrday. I think it will help out a lot of people. it is written by Tracy McMillan and was posted on the Huffington Post. I’d love to hear what you think: You want to get married. It’s taken a while to admit it. Saying it out loud — even in…
Read moreJoint Custody As The Rule, Not The Exception
Espousing joint custody as a favourable solution to bitter tug-of-wars in child custody battles, retired chief justice of Delhi high court AP Shah and justice RS Dalvi from the Bombay high court said that it could do wonders for the welfare of the child. This liberal view was expressed in a seminar, ‘Voice of Voiceless…
Read moreReal Men
….and real women aren’t offended when we do it
Read moreWork-Life Balance
Two high-powered women in tech — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg — are leading the debate about women, equality in the workplace and work-life balance. This week on New Tech City, WNYC reporter Anna Sale talks to women in New York City’s tech scene about what they think of the messages coming down from…
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