November is Men's Equality Month
Celebrate International Men's Day - November 19th
A Coalition to Create a White House Council on Boys & Men supports Mens Equality Month - November
The book, The Myth of Male Power, documented numerous areas of male disadvantage in the United States. In response, the International Council for Men and Boys took this information and summarized it into 12 areas of male disadvantage in the global context. These areas include Education, Health, the Boy Crisis, and many others.
But these persistent areas of male disadvantage have been largely ignored by the mainstream media. So in November, the International Council will be holding the first-ever Men’s Equality Month. The highlight of the observance will be International Men’s Day on November 19. Dozens of groups around the world will be participating.
Men’s Equality Month will feature social media campaigns, educational workshops, press releases, and a Men’s Equality Month Reception at the United Nations in New York City on November 19.
The Social Media hashtags will be: #MensEqualityMonth #GenderEqualityForMen
For more information, visit: https://www.menandboys.net/mem/
A Coalition to Create a White House Council on Boys & Men
An Open Letter to President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, and the White House Gender Policy Council
Contact information: Coalition Chair: Dr. Warren Farrell, warren@warrenfarrell.com, 415-754-5233
January 9, 2023
Dear President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, and the White House Gender Policy Council:
On November 13, the same day that Harvard Magazine reported a widening life expectancy gap between men and women, with men dying 5.9 years earlier than women on average, a new White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research was launched. While we fully support the well-being and health of everyone, we feel the need to point out that there are male health and well-being issues that you are not currently addressing.
Fmr. President Bill Clinton talking with California Governor Gavin Newsom about the Crisis of Boys and Men
September 24, 2025, 4 minutes
In the last election, the Democrats ignored men's needs while the Republicans didn't. The result was that Trump became president
The Boy Crisis - Discrimination Against Men and Boys - Title IX
CBS News Sunday with Jane Pauley
University of Vermont has men's gender equity / diversity center in Women's Center. This sound like President Biden's White House Gender Policy Council which excludes all males of all races.
We're missing a major mental health crisis: Teen boys are struggling, too
The Washington Post, by Jennifer Fink, April 14, 2023
Sheila Hedstrom-Pelger, a nurse in Chandler, Ariz., thought she knew the signs of depression. She had sought professional help for her oldest son, Alex, when he admitted feelings of hopelessness, sadness, anxiety and suicidal thoughts while in high school. But when her second son, Tyler, started verbally lashing out at her when he was a teen, Hedstrom-Pelger didn't consider depression as a possible cause for Tyler's out-of-character behavior.
"I took it personally," she said. "I assumed he was upset with me."
Only after Tyler's suicide at age 17 did Hedstrom-Pelger learn that "irritability is a sign of depression and anxiety" for many males, "not just a 'boy being a boy' or 'being a teenager,' " she said.
Being male is the biggest risk factor for suicide, yet that fact isn't widely known, says Richard V. Reeves, author of "Of Boys And Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What To Do About It" and a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. In the United States, nearly four times as many males die of suicide than females, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
A silent crisis in men's health gets worse
Across the life span -- from infancy to the teen years, midlife and old age -- boys and men are more likely to die than girls and women
The Washington Post, By Tara Parker-Pope and Caitlin Gilbert, April 17, 2023
A silent crisis in men's health is shortening the life spans of fathers, husbands, brothers and sons.
For years, the conventional wisdom has been that a lack of sex-specific health research mainly hurts women and gender minorities. While those concerns are real, a closer look at longevity data tells a more complicated story.
Across the life span "from infancy to the teen years, midlife and old age" the risk of death at every age is higher for boys and men than for girls and women.
The result is a growing longevity gap between men and women. In the United States, life expectancy in 2021 was 79.1 years for women and 73.2 years for men. That 5.9-year difference is the largest gap in a quarter-century. (The data aren't parsed to include differences among nonbinary and trans people.)
"Men are advantaged in every aspect of our society, yet we have worse health outcomes for most of the things that will kill you," said Derek Griffith, director of Georgetown University's Center for Men's Health Equity in the Racial Justice Institute. "We tend not to prioritize men's health, but it needs unique attention, and it has implications for the rest of the family. It means other members of the family, including women and children, also suffer.'
The longevity gap between men and women is a global phenomenon, although sex differences and data on the ages of greatest risk vary around the world and are influenced by cultural norms, record keeping and geopolitical factors such as war, climate change and poverty.
Andrew Yang and Warren Farrell on The Boy Crisis
The Forward Party's Andrew Yang discusses his own research and that of Dr. Warren Farrell in Dr. Farrell's Book "The Boy Crisis"
Most Mass Shooters "Dad-Deprived Males": Author Warren Farrell
The Epoch Times, April 22, 2021, BY ZACHARY STIEBER AND JAN JEKIELEK
Key commonalities for most mass shooters in the United States are that they are male and that they lack a father figure in their lives, author Warren Farrell says.
"There's common denominators among mass shooters, the most obvious is that they're male". "98 percent are male. A second common denominator is that they're almost all dad-deprived males," Farrell told The Epoch Times American Thought Leaders.
People who carry out mass shootings at schools in particular tend to be boys who are suicidal, depressed, and dad-deprived.
In one example, a recent school shooter in Indianapolis did not have a father because in his early teens, his dad committed suicide. In another case, Stephen Paddock, who killed 58 in a mass shooting in Las Vegas, experienced his father imprisoned and went lengthy periods of time without seeing him. Adam Lanza, who authorities say opened fire in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, also did not often see his father, who was divorced from his mother.
The White House Gender Policy Council Excludes Males - Satirical Video
In a White House executive order of March 2021, a new White House Gender Policy Council was established. This was designed to support equity and equality for all genders. However, the MALE gender was left out.
Watch this satirical video for an insightful take.
Created by Legacy Productions: https://legacyproductions.org
Jordan B Peterson Interviewing and Discussing With Dr. Warren Farrell - The Boy Crisis, The Importance of Fathers in Children's Lives and Gender Equality History
Fascinating coversation and interview with two amazing people, great minds, Dr. Jordan B Peterson, Canadian Professor, University of Toronto, clinical psychologist and life changing mentor with American ex-NOW director and gender expert Dr. Warren Farrell, author of world class best selling books like Why Men Earn More, The Myth of Male Power and The Boy Crisis
This is 1 Hour and 35 minutes of some of the best gender history of America and the women's movement since it began by a previous NOW Board member
About 650,000 views on YouTube
308,0000 on Jordan Peterson's Youtube channel and 339,000 on Warren Farrell's Youtube channel, as of October 12, 2021
GUEST COLUMN: Boys who hurt us are also boys who are hurt
The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Guest Columnist - Warren Farrell - April 5, 2021
Two mass shootings in rapid succession have intensified the sense of insecurity in an already vulnerable American public. Yet as schools open, the insecurity will deepen if we remain unaware of how to avert the perfect storm that predicts an unprecedented increase in school shootings.
Warren Farrell
A mass shooting is more than a multiple homicide. It is also a suicide (either literally or practically). It is a boy or man hurting enough to also end his own life. That is, boys who hurt us are also boys who are hurt.
We can sense this with Atlanta shooter Robert Aaron Long, who appears to have hated himself for a sex addiction that was in fundamental conflict with a religion requiring pre-marital sex prohibition. We can say he hated Asian-American women. But in fact he desired the women, hated himself for desiring the women, and likely hated any woman who serviced his conflicted desires.
We can similarly sense the hurt and pain of the Colorado shooter, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, an event that was triggered in part by being bullied by his peers for being a Muslim.
If we hope to minimize mass shootings, then, we need to minimize the pain that is causing our pain. For starters, we need to be pro-active in identifying young men who are depressed and suicidal. They are often angry at being rejected both by others and themselves. Yet instead of helping them express their anger constructively, we shame them into repressing their anger, only to be 'shocked' when their volcano erupts, and bewildered as we bury our dead.
Black Fathers Address To President Biden on The White House Gender Policy Council Including The Black Fathers' Experience
Dr VIBE is the host of "Black Men Talking", "Dads Talking" "Man, Listen"... among other shows
Dr.VIBE, The Dr. Vibe Show, dominates the Internet when it comes to hosting intelligent, entertaining conversations on race and gender. His experience as a TV reporter injects an extra dose of thoughtfulness into all of his interviews, setting him apart from the average online broadcaster.
Sylvester Witter is a well known advocate for boys and men with the added dimensions of being Black and a Father. His experience in mentoring boys is essential to helping boys and men develop and achieve.
For Immediate release:
The Colorado and Atlanta Mass Shootings: Boys Who Hurt Us Are Boys Who Hurt
March 25, 2021
By Warren Farrell, Ph.D
Despite two mass shootings leaving virtually every American feeling some degree of insecurity, President Biden failed to even acknowledge them, no less suggest a plan to avert future shootings. What was missed in this omission?
In Dr. Warren Farrell's research for The Boy Crisis, he uncovered 63 red flags of depression and suicide that warn us that a boy or man may be hurting. A mass shooting is both a multiple homicide and a suicide (either literally or practically)'that is, a boy or man hurting enough to also end his own life.
The Boy Crisis identifies four things that mass shooters have in common:
1. They are male (almost 100%)
2. They are boys who are hurt (e.g., the 63 red flags)
3. They are dad-deprived (about 80-90%)
4. They have guns (by definition)
Who We Are
In 2009 a multi-partisan coalition of many of the nation's leading experts articulated the depth of the boy crisis, its threat to America's future, and the need for a White House Council on Boys and Men to address its multiple facets.
In 2019, on Sixty Minutes, Fed Chair Jerome Powell ranked the boy crisis as one of the two biggest threats to America's economic future.
Dr. Warren Farrell, the chair of the Coalition to Create a White House Council on Boys and Men, explains the boy crisis in his TEDx talk which can be viewed on this website.
And here is Fed Chair Powell's warning about the boy crisis on 60 Minutes [see 11:00-12:41].
FOX Primetime: "Gender" Policy Council Ignores Boys in time of COVID
The Primetime host, Rachel Campos-Duffy, has nine children. She "gets" Dr. Warren Farrell's argument as to why excluding boys and involved dads from the White House Gender Policy Council is a disaster to children. Especially boys in school--or not in school--during COVID.
Click above to watch on this website or watch on YouTube
Myth of Male Privilege; WH Gender Council Ignores Boy Crisis; "Father Warriors"
Message To President Biden About The Boy Crisis And Including All Genders in The White House Gender Policy Council
Watch the video of Warren Farrell, and Deb Blum
Click above to watch on this website or watch on YouTube
This one-pager offers a quick intro to the need for a White House Council on Boys and Men. As does this video. Here is the full proposal for the White House Council on Boys and Men Coalition Interviews 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates on a White House Council on Boys and Men
Full interview of Coalition with John Hickenlooper:
This story in Colorado Politics on their dialogue was syndicated throughout Colorado. USA Today Features Plea to Create White House Council on Boys and Men
USA Today: 'Boy crisis' threatens America's future with economic, health and suicide risks Martha MacCallum tweets Pres. Trump re: White House Council after Dr. Farrell's appearance
After the El Paso and Dayton shootings, Dr. Farrell explains why dad-deprived boys account for the vast majority of male prisoners, ISIS recruits and mass shooters. The Boy Crisis: Causes and Solutions
Dr. Warren Farrell on FOX and Friends in 2019 suggests that President Trump create a White House Council on Boys and Men to call the boy crisis to national attention and the development of 'Father Warriors' as one of many solutions. May, 2019: Staten Island Council on Boys and Men Becomes Only Active Government Entity Concerned with Boys' and Men's Issues 2015: Boy Crisis, Fatherlessness, and Presidential Candidates
This video presents Dr. Warren Farrell, chair of the Coalition, and other members discussing these issues in 2015 with Republican presidential candidates Scott Walker, Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal. Ingraham's Angle Recommends White House Council on Boys and Men
How You Can Help
Watch this video to see how you can help boys and men meet the presidential candidates in New Hampshire and Iowa in 2019, as they did in 2015, to get them to call the boy crisis to national attention and the need for a White House Council on Boys and Men as one solution .
Your donations to the work of the Coalition to Create a White House Council on Boys and Men through PayPal and Network for Go
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International Men's Day
November 19th
The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.
WHAT IS THE BOY CRISIS?
It’s a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science.
It’s a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women.
It’s a crisis of fathering. Boys are growing up with less-involved fathers and are more likely to drop out of school, drink, do drugs, become delinquent, and end up in prison.
It’s a crisis of purpose. Boys’ old sense of purpose—being a warrior, a leader, or a sole breadwinner—is fading. Many bright boys are experiencing a “purpose void,” feeling alienated, withdrawn, and addicted to immediate gratification.
So, what is The Boy Crisis? A comprehensive blueprint for what parents, teachers, and policymakers can do to help our sons become happier, healthier men and fathers and leaders worthy of our respect.
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
The Book that Sparked a National Conversation
A Barack Obama 2024 Summer Reading Selection
An Economist Best Book of 2022
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022
Boys and men are struggling. Profound economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom, the workplace, and in the family. While the lives of women have changed, the lives of many men have remained the same or even worsened.
In this widely praised book, Richard Reeves, father of three sons, a journalist, and now the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood. He argues that our attitudes, our institutions, and our laws have failed to keep up. Conservative and progressive politicians, mired in their own ideological warfare, fail to provide thoughtful solutions.
Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. Of Boys and Men argues that helping the other half of society does not mean giving up on the ideal of gender equality.
How Democrats Can Win Back Men: Why Understanding Male Voters and Their Issues is Vital for Democratic Victory
"How Democrats Can Win Back Men could be the most important book ever written toward both the re-election of Democrats in 2024 and reversing the loss of men to the Democratic party in the next decades if campaign leaders implement its advice..." -- Dr. Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis
Democrats have been losing men -- it's time to win them back! A registered Democrat for 35 years, debut author Mark W. Sutton examines voting patterns, Democratic strategy, and policy decisions revealing the urgent need for the party to better appeal to male voters in 2024 and in the coming decades.
The margins of victory, particularly in key swing states, have been razor-thin in the last two presidential elections. If Democrats can sway just a small percentage of male voters, they greatly improve their chances of taking both the White House and Congress. Sutton shows how Democrats can reframe messaging and adjust strategic and policy decisions to increase their odds of winning in 2024 and beyond.
The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men
2015 - An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic — now more relevant than ever—argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs.
Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation’s schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. Now, after two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, women have made massive strides in education. Today they outperform men in nearly every measure of social, academic, and vocational well-being.
Christina Hoff Sommers contends that it’s time to take a hard look at present-day realities and recognize that boys need help. Called “provocative and controversial...impassioned and articulate” (The Christian Science Monitor), this edition of The War Against Boys offers a new preface and six radically revised chapters, plus updates on the current status of boys throughout the book.