Further evidence of bias against men in medical health research was noted in Ed Bartlett's MHA mailing list, message 319. "The journal, Statistics in Medicine, has just published an important article that compares the number of single-sex studies done for men and women, and compares that number with the disease burden faced by both sexes. The study, "Estimation of Gender Bias in Clinical Trials" looks at articles published from 1966-1995. The article...concludes that while women were underrepresented in heart disease trials, men were underrepresented both in cancer and in other trials. The article further abolishes the myth that women were "routinely excluded" from medical research.

Dr. Murray Straus e-mailed me about this report from the American Medical Association about violence against men. He wrote, "despite the title, [this report] presents a quite reasonable statement on male domestic violence victims. Since the AMA is such an authoritative source, you might want to look at it and quote from it, perhaps especially the recommendations at the end."

Wendy McElroy's ifeminist.com newsletter featured this web site by a woman who's had enough feminist propaganda thrown at her. It was described as, "Dedicated to advancing reason rather than feminist propaganda on campus. "Are you tired of male-bashing and victimology? Have you had your fill of feminist 'Ms./Information?' Have you been mislead by factually challenged professors?" Take their test and see if you need to be de-programmed."

AngryHarry submitted this story from the UK Telegraph. In Tony Blair's campaign for re-election, he has promised to reserve a position in every government department for a woman. This move is intended to "compensate" for the fact that he disbanded the women's unit, which we reported on earlier this month. (Warning: sarcasm ahead) It's nice to now that, in this day and age, gender discrimination is so unacceptable to our enlightened souls.

Not PC submitted this article from Town Hall and writes, "After years of attempting to educate women on the foolishness of having children out of wedlock, it would appear that the next step is to blame men. Suzanne Fields says that 1.3 million babies are born without fathers. Of course, these children have fathers -- it took two people to make a baby. What she really means is that either these women don't know who is the father of their children or that the father of their child is not married to them. Let's put the blame where it belongs, Suzanne!"

frank h directed me to the International Reading Association's special interest group on Gender Issues in Reading Achievement and writes, "The person who currently chairs this group is unable to continue and the group is likely to fold. This is a wonderful opportunity to have a direct, positive effect on the success of males in reading education, especially considering the demonstrated poor performance of males in the recent NAEP results." Please consider volunteering if you have the background, and pass this information around to anyone you know who might be interested. Contact information is on the web page linked to above.

Anonymous User writes "Here is an article I think you may find interesting about male-on-male rape in men's prisons in the USA." From the article: ""I have been sexually assaulted twice since being incarcerated. Both times the staff refused to do anything except to lock me up and make accusations that I'm homosexual...," wrote J.G. of Florida...."Roughly half of all states don't even gather specific data on prison rape. And those that do, the data is just not realistic," said Joanne Mariner, author of the report. "The fact that other states aren't even collecting the data shows that they are not taking the issue seriously.""

Patricia Hausman is on a roll lately with her latest article about the futility of creating equality of outcomes: "Like any good gender warrior, La Parité says it is motivated by the principle that the sexes deserve "equal representation" throughout society. Au contraire. The low number of females among prison inmates, workplace fatalities, and non-custodial parents does not trouble this crowd. It focuses solely on stations in life that involve money, power, and prestige. La parité, it seems, is French for a world where women are guaranteed at least half of the good stuff, and men most of the bad."

Carnell Smith submitted this press release. It outlines Smith's Georgia court session where he explains how he was frauded into fatherhood. From the release, "We don't know and we won't have an answer from the Judge until he completes his review. There was one great victory for Smith, the mother's attorney admitted in open court "they do not want future child support" and the judge replied "I understand that child support is waived". The court recessed after conflicting testimony of the mother and her best friend. Smith observed several members of GA Dept of Human Resources present at the trial, along with 20(?) supporters of CAPF and other interested parties."

bernee writes "The high level of suicide in Australia in males aged 29-30 is noted in this article from The Canberra Times. No mention is made as to how to counter this trend nor the reasons for it." Well, I suppose acknowledging the problem is the first step, but not even offering any kind of explanation for the reasons behind it does seem kind of callous on this critical issue.

Jonathan writes "This is a short article highlighting the fact that for once, the UK Labour Government is removing a useless layer of bureaucracy, the Women's Unit. Unfortunately, despite accepting the fact that it was an embarrassment, derided by both men and women, they are still going to press ahead with positive discrimination for women in Government. This will be achieved by installing far more women ministers in the next Government, irrespective of ability. Click here for the link."

Trudy W Schuett writes "Trudy W. Schuett has left the Liberator, a print men's issues magazine, citing personal reasons. She intends to continue supporting the men's movement through other projects, such as The Moms for Dad's Rights Yahoo Club, The Men in Crisis Prayer Circle, and a projected book co-authored with AZFather's Rights Org member David Hamu. She will also begin publication of a bi-weekly e-zine called, The DesertLight Journal. The DesertLight Journal will focus on the issues of domestic violence and divorce/child custody, and the people and groups behind these issues. The DesertLight Journal will encourage new writers, and will often feature essays and articles written by former contributors to the now-defunct Themestream.com."

Marc Angelucci writes "Wired News printed an article on how NOW is creating controlled internet forums to avoid the "misogynist talk," "hate" and "verbal abuse" they allegedly receive in their internet forums. If some people were rude in the NOW forums, they should not be. But I have seen NOW take down messages from David Byron and others that were very polite attempts to engage in meaningful dialogue on the issues. NOW is telling half-truths and falsehoods as usual to justify their aversion to debate. If NOW wants to create controlled environments with no controversy for purposes of supportive discussion, that is wonderful. But if they are doing it just to avoid debate, which is very apparent, then they should be honest about it rather than lying and male-bashing to justify their cowardice. And the media should give balanced coverage of it by getting both sides of the story, which they did not. You can write a letter to the Wired News editor here newsfeedback@wired.com."

David Byron writes "An article by the Boston Globe entitled, "On campuses, fewer rallying for feminism" records a turn out of only about 40 women when Patricia Ireland, president of NOW, came to the all-female college at Wellesley. The article briefly discusses the reasons for the dwindling interest in feminism. As you can guess men are partly to blame, even at an all woman college!"

Anonymous User writes "In a recent issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, a study was done to examine whether one gender or the other reported exposure to a greater number of life stresses, or reported greater likelihood of depression in response to stress. Thus, the authors examine the "cost of caring" hypothesis, in which women are thought to be more prone to depression because they have a greater emotional investment in their social networks. Results: Men were more likely to report stresses such as occupational problems, job loss, legal problems, and being robbed. Women were more likely to report stresses from conflict, crisis, or illness in their support network. Results were seen as consistent with gender role expectations. There was no indication that women experienced more stresses or were more sensitive to stress. An abstract of the article can be found here."