1. People are less concerned about male suffering.
Reynolds, Tania, et al. "Man Up and Take It: Gender Bias in Moral Typecasting." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 161, 2020, pp. 120-141, ISSN 0749-5978.
2. Most people are more willing to sacrifice a man’s life than a woman’s, they are also inclined to save the lives of women over those of men.
Gröschel Jr, Amilcar & Awad, Edmond & Schulz, Jonathan. (2018). 2018 Article The Moral Machine. Nature.
3. Male and female adolescents feel more empathy for female peers than they do for male ones.
Stuijfzand S, De Wied M, Kempes M, Van de Graaff J, Branje S, Meeus W. Gender Differences in Empathic Sadness towards Persons of the Same- versus Other-sex during Adolescence. Sex Roles. 2016;75(9):434-446. doi: 10.1007/s11199-016-0649-3. Epub 2016 Jun 27. PMID: 27909382; PMCID: PMC5112287.
4. In-group bias isn't present in men, however it's present in women.
Rudman, Laurie & Goodwin, Stephanie. (2004). Gender Differences in Automatic In-Group Bias: Why Do Women Like Women More Than Men Like Men?. Journal of personality and social psychology. 87. 494-509. 10.1037/0022-3514.87.4.494.
5. Lesbians are more accepted than gay men around the world.
Bettinsoli, Maria Laura & Suppes, Alexandra & Napier, Jaime. (2019). Predictors of Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbian Women in 23 Countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 11. 194855061988778. 10.1177/1948550619887785.
6. Most homeless people are men.
Moses, Joy and Jackie Janosko. "Demographic Data Project Part II: Gender and Individual Homelessness." National Alliance to End Homelessness, endhomelessness.org/ddp.
7. Men are 97% of combat fatalities.
Fischer, Hannah. "A Guide to U.S. Military Casualty Statistics: Operation Inherent Resolve, Operation New Dawn, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom." Congressional Research Service, 20 Nov. 2014, RS22452.
8. The majority of war-related civilian deaths are men.
Ormhaug, Christin Marsh; Patrick Meier & Helga Hernes (2009) Armed Conflict Deaths Disaggregated by Gender. PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
9. Boys and men are almost exclusively targeted by genocidal regimes, throughout history and present day.
Global Justice Center. "Beyond Killing: Gender, Genocide, & Obligations Under International Law." December 2018.
10. Men make up 93% of work fatalities.
Employment and fatalities, by gender of worker, 2006.
11. 81% of adult homicide victims are men, and 67% of child homicide victims are boys.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Global Study on Homicide, 2023.
12. Contrary to the belief that it’s more dangerous for a woman to go out in public, it’s actually men who experience more violent crime by strangers at nearly twice the rate of women.
Harrell, Erika, Ph.D. "Violent Victimization Committed by Strangers, 1993-2010." Bureau of Justice Statistics, December. 2012.
13. Men fear being victims of crime just as much as women.
Sutton, Robbie. (2005). Gender, Socially Desirable Responding and the Fear of Crime: Are Women Really More Anxious about Crime?. British Journal of Criminology. 10.1093/bjc/azh084.
Derksen, Syras Wade. "Gender, Social Desirability, and Fear of Crime: Are Women Really More Afraid?" The Faculty of Graduate Studies of The University of Manitoba, 2012. Print.
14. Boys in poor urban areas suffer more than girls from violence, sexual abuse, and neglect.
Blum, Robert Wm, et al. "Measuring Adverse Child Experiences Among Young Adolescents Globally: Relationships With Depressive Symptoms and Violence Perpetration." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 65, no. 1, 2019, pp. 86-93.
15. While women are twice as likely as men to be victims of human trafficking (42 percent to 23 percent), both boys and girls are equally likely to be targeted for human trafficking.
Curtis, Ric, et al. "The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City. September 2008. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2008.
UNODC, Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2022 (United Nations publication, Sales no.: E.23.IV.1).
16. Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls.
Thurstans S, Opondo C, Seal A, et al. Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition. BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e004030. doi:10.1136/ bmjgh-2020-004030
17. Boys are much more likely to be beaten at school and are beaten worse than girls.
VIII. The Use of Corporal Punishment against Specific Groups
18. Boys were much more likely to be physically abused than girls.
Thompson MP, Kingree JB, Desai S. Gender differences in long-term health consequences of physical abuse of children: data from a nationally representative survey. Am J Public Health. 2004 Apr;94(4):599-604. doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.4.599. PMID: 15054012; PMCID: PMC1448305.
19. There are 24 million more boys than girls doing child labor.
International Labour Office. Global Estimates of Child Labour: Results and Trends, 2012-2016. Geneva, 2017.
20. Boys are more likely to be murdered by one of their parents, and it’s mostly mothers that do the murdering.
Child Maltreatment 2022. Children’s Bureau (CB), 29 Jan. 2024.
21. Both mothers and fathers tend to treat daughters more favorably across all Western countries.
Jensen, A. C., & Jorgensen-Wells, M. A. (2025). Parents favor daughters: A meta-analysis of gender and other predictors of parental differential treatment. Psychological Bulletin, 151(1), 33–47. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000458
22. Teenage boys actually experience more abuse from their romantic partners of the opposite sex than girls do.
Shaffer, C. S., Adjei, J., Viljoen, J. L., Douglas, K. S., & Saewyc, E. M. (2021). Ten-Year Trends in Physical Dating Violence Victimization Among Adolescent Boys and Girls in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(9-10), 3947-3964. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518788367.
23. Male victims of domestic violence who report the crime were more likely to be arrested than the female abuser.
Douglas EM, Hines DA. The Helpseeking Experiences of Men Who Sustain Intimate Partner Violence: An Overlooked Population and Implications for Practice. J Fam Violence. 2011 Aug;26(6):473-485. doi: 10.1007/s10896-011-9382-4. PMID: 21935262; PMCID: PMC3175099.
24. Female criminals reported to police are less likely than male criminals to be arrested.
Lisa Stolzenberg, Stewart J. D'Alessio, Sex differences in the likelihood of arrest, Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pg 443-454, ISSN 0047-2352, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2004.06.006.
25. Men get 63% longer sentences than women for the same crime.
Starr, Sonja B., Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases (August 29, 2012). University of Michigan Law and Economics Research Paper, No. 12-018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2144002.
26. At least 11% of men are falsely accused of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, or other forms of abuse.
Stewart, Rebecca. "Survey: Over 20 Million Have Been Falsely Accused of Abuse." Center For Prosecutor Integrity, 17 Dec. 2020.
27. 40% of college women polled said they would happily make a malicious accusation.
Bertsch, S., Matthews, K. Lies and imagined intent to lie: Personality, sexism beliefs and false claims of assault. Curr Psychol 42, 9810–9818 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02278-2
28. Being falsey accused of a crime can be as traumatic to someone’s psyche as rape.
Brooks SK, Greenberg N. Psychological impact of being wrongfully accused of criminal offences: A systematic literature review. Med Sci Law. 2021 Jan;61(1):44-54. doi: 10.1177/0025802420949069. Epub 2020 Aug 17. PMID: 32807017; PMCID: PMC7838333.
29. Reported crimes with female victims have higher clearance rates than crimes with male victims.
Aki Roberts, The influences of incident and contextual characteristics on crime clearance of nonlethal violence: A multilevel event history analysis, Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pg 61-71, ISSN 0047-2352, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2007.12.007.
Avdija AS, Gallagher C, Woods DD. Homicide Clearance Rates in the United States, 1976-2017: Examining Homicide Clearance Rates Relative to the Situational Circumstances in Which They Occur. Violence Vict. 2022 Feb 1;37(1):101-115. doi: 10.1891/VV-D-20-00134. PMID: 35165162.
30. Both men and women actually see women as morally superior to men.
Eagly, A. H., Nater, C., Miller, D. I., Kaufmann, M., & Sczesny, S. (2019, July 18). Gender Stereotypes Have Changed: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of U.S. Public Opinion Polls From 1946 to 2018. American Psychologist. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000494.
31. Men are more likely to be altruistic to women than to men.
Saad, G., Gill, T. Sex Differences in the Ultimatum Game: An Evolutionary Psychology Perspective. Journal of Bioeconomics 3, 171–193 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020583425623
32. People are more supportive of women in male-dominated professions than vice versa.
Block, Katharina, et al. "Do People Care If Men Don't Care About Caring? The Asymmetry in Support for Changing Gender Roles." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 83, 2019, pp. 112-131, ISSN 0022-1031, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.03.013.
33. Mothers are more likely to stigmatize negative emotions from boys than fathers.
Thomassin, K., & Seddon, J. A. (2019). Implicit attitudes about gender and emotion are associated with mothers’ but not fathers’ emotion socialization. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 51(4), 254–260. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000142
34. Men receive more negative criticism than women for the same quality of performance.
Jampol L, Zayas V. Gendered White Lies: Women Are Given Inflated Performance Feedback Compared With Men. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2021 Jan;47(1):57-69. doi: 10.1177/0146167220916622. Epub 2020 May 18. PMID: 32418503.
35. Teachers gave girls higher grades for the same quality of work boys do on school-related papers, and boys overall have a disadvantage in the school system.
Hartley BL, Sutton RM. A stereotype threat account of boys' academic underachievement. Child Dev. 2013 Sep-Oct;84(5):1716-33. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12079. Epub 2013 Feb 12. PMID: 23402479.
Ilaria Lievore & Moris Triventi (2023) Do teacher and classroom characteristics affect the way in which girls and boys are graded?, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44:1, 97-122, DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2022.2122942
K-12 Education: Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities. GAO-18-258, Mar 22, 2018, released Apr 04, 2018, https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-258.
Terrier, Camille. "Boys Lag Behind: How Teachers' Gender Biases Affect Student Achievement." November 2016, The School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, MIT Department of Economics.
36. Both men and women have an equal likelihood of experiencing rape, domestic abuse, harassment, and possibly stalking from members of the opposite sex.
Stemple, Lara & Meyer, Ilan. (2014). The Sexual Victimization of Men in America: New Data Challenge Old Assumptions. American journal of public health. 104. e19-26. 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301946.
Straus, Murray. (2010). Thirty Years of Denying the Evidence on Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence: Implications for Prevention and Treatment. Partner Abuse. 1. 332-362. 10.1891/1946-6560.1.3.332.
Acquadro Maran D, Varetto A, Corona I, Tirassa M. Characteristics of the stalking campaign: Consequences and coping strategies for men and women that report their victimization to police. PLoS One. 2020 Feb 28;15(2):e0229830. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229830. PMID: 32109263; PMCID: PMC7048288.
37. Male victims of sexual coercion are not taken as seriously as female victims.
Anneloes Huitema & IneVanwesenbeeck (2016) Attitudes of Dutch citizens towards male victims of sexual coercion by a female perpetrator, Journal of Sexual Aggression, 22:3, 308-322, DOI: 10.1080/13552600.2016.1159343
38. Common reasons women give for abusing their male partners include feeling angry, or having their feelings hurt, but NEVER because of self-defense.
Hettrich, Emma & O'Leary, K. Daniel. (2007). Females' Reasons for Their Physical Aggression in Dating Relationships. Journal of interpersonal violence. 22. 1131-43. 10.1177/0886260507303729.
39. Male suicide is 4 times higher than females, even when they choose the same methods as females. And (according to NCISH) it’s not because men don’t seel help, a study of 1,500 men who committed suicide found that 91% had been in contact with a health agency to seek help.
Garnett, Matthew F. and Sally C. Curtin. "Suicide Mortality in the United States, 2001–2021." NCHS Data Brief, no. 464, April 2023.
Anna Cibis, Roland Mergl, Anke Bramesfeld, David Althaus, Günter Niklewski, Armin Schmidtke, Ulrich Hegerl, Preference of lethal methods is not the only cause for higher suicide rates in males, Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 136, Issues 1–2, 2012, Pages 9-16, ISSN 0165-0327, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2011.08.032.
The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH). Suicide by middle-aged men. 2021. The University of Manchester. https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=55305
40. Girls benefit more from teen suicide prevention programs than boys.
Hamilton E, Klimes-Dougan B. Gender differences in suicide prevention responses: implications for adolescents based on an illustrative review of the literature. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015 Feb 23;12(3):2359-72. doi: 10.3390/ijerph120302359. PMID: 25711358; PMCID: PMC4377906.
41. Men are as likely as women to develop depression.
Martin LA, Neighbors HW, Griffith DM. The experience of symptoms of depression in men vs women: analysis of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 Oct;70(10):1100-6. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.1985. PMID: 23986338.
I identify as an egalitarian. I support the rights of women and men alike, and I believe that no society can thrive when one half of its people are dismissed or devalued.
Saying “men have issues unique to them” does not mean “women don’t.” Recognizing the struggles one group faces should never require denying the struggles of another. Equality demands that we care about both—and refuse to treat empathy like a zero-sum game.
Reynolds, Tania, et al. "Man Up and Take It: Gender Bias in Moral Typecasting." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 161, 2020, pp. 120-141, ISSN 0749-5978.
2. Most people are more willing to sacrifice a man’s life than a woman’s, they are also inclined to save the lives of women over those of men.
Gröschel Jr, Amilcar & Awad, Edmond & Schulz, Jonathan. (2018). 2018 Article The Moral Machine. Nature.
3. Male and female adolescents feel more empathy for female peers than they do for male ones.
Stuijfzand S, De Wied M, Kempes M, Van de Graaff J, Branje S, Meeus W. Gender Differences in Empathic Sadness towards Persons of the Same- versus Other-sex during Adolescence. Sex Roles. 2016;75(9):434-446. doi: 10.1007/s11199-016-0649-3. Epub 2016 Jun 27. PMID: 27909382; PMCID: PMC5112287.
4. In-group bias isn't present in men, however it's present in women.
Rudman, Laurie & Goodwin, Stephanie. (2004). Gender Differences in Automatic In-Group Bias: Why Do Women Like Women More Than Men Like Men?. Journal of personality and social psychology. 87. 494-509. 10.1037/0022-3514.87.4.494.
5. Lesbians are more accepted than gay men around the world.
Bettinsoli, Maria Laura & Suppes, Alexandra & Napier, Jaime. (2019). Predictors of Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbian Women in 23 Countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 11. 194855061988778. 10.1177/1948550619887785.
6. Most homeless people are men.
Moses, Joy and Jackie Janosko. "Demographic Data Project Part II: Gender and Individual Homelessness." National Alliance to End Homelessness, endhomelessness.org/ddp.
7. Men are 97% of combat fatalities.
Fischer, Hannah. "A Guide to U.S. Military Casualty Statistics: Operation Inherent Resolve, Operation New Dawn, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom." Congressional Research Service, 20 Nov. 2014, RS22452.
8. The majority of war-related civilian deaths are men.
Ormhaug, Christin Marsh; Patrick Meier & Helga Hernes (2009) Armed Conflict Deaths Disaggregated by Gender. PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
9. Boys and men are almost exclusively targeted by genocidal regimes, throughout history and present day.
Global Justice Center. "Beyond Killing: Gender, Genocide, & Obligations Under International Law." December 2018.
10. Men make up 93% of work fatalities.
Employment and fatalities, by gender of worker, 2006.
11. 81% of adult homicide victims are men, and 67% of child homicide victims are boys.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Global Study on Homicide, 2023.
12. Contrary to the belief that it’s more dangerous for a woman to go out in public, it’s actually men who experience more violent crime by strangers at nearly twice the rate of women.
Harrell, Erika, Ph.D. "Violent Victimization Committed by Strangers, 1993-2010." Bureau of Justice Statistics, December. 2012.
13. Men fear being victims of crime just as much as women.
Sutton, Robbie. (2005). Gender, Socially Desirable Responding and the Fear of Crime: Are Women Really More Anxious about Crime?. British Journal of Criminology. 10.1093/bjc/azh084.
Derksen, Syras Wade. "Gender, Social Desirability, and Fear of Crime: Are Women Really More Afraid?" The Faculty of Graduate Studies of The University of Manitoba, 2012. Print.
14. Boys in poor urban areas suffer more than girls from violence, sexual abuse, and neglect.
Blum, Robert Wm, et al. "Measuring Adverse Child Experiences Among Young Adolescents Globally: Relationships With Depressive Symptoms and Violence Perpetration." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 65, no. 1, 2019, pp. 86-93.
15. While women are twice as likely as men to be victims of human trafficking (42 percent to 23 percent), both boys and girls are equally likely to be targeted for human trafficking.
Curtis, Ric, et al. "The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City. September 2008. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2008.
UNODC, Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2022 (United Nations publication, Sales no.: E.23.IV.1).
16. Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls.
Thurstans S, Opondo C, Seal A, et al. Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition. BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e004030. doi:10.1136/ bmjgh-2020-004030
17. Boys are much more likely to be beaten at school and are beaten worse than girls.
VIII. The Use of Corporal Punishment against Specific Groups
18. Boys were much more likely to be physically abused than girls.
Thompson MP, Kingree JB, Desai S. Gender differences in long-term health consequences of physical abuse of children: data from a nationally representative survey. Am J Public Health. 2004 Apr;94(4):599-604. doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.4.599. PMID: 15054012; PMCID: PMC1448305.
19. There are 24 million more boys than girls doing child labor.
International Labour Office. Global Estimates of Child Labour: Results and Trends, 2012-2016. Geneva, 2017.
20. Boys are more likely to be murdered by one of their parents, and it’s mostly mothers that do the murdering.
Child Maltreatment 2022. Children’s Bureau (CB), 29 Jan. 2024.
21. Both mothers and fathers tend to treat daughters more favorably across all Western countries.
Jensen, A. C., & Jorgensen-Wells, M. A. (2025). Parents favor daughters: A meta-analysis of gender and other predictors of parental differential treatment. Psychological Bulletin, 151(1), 33–47. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000458
22. Teenage boys actually experience more abuse from their romantic partners of the opposite sex than girls do.
Shaffer, C. S., Adjei, J., Viljoen, J. L., Douglas, K. S., & Saewyc, E. M. (2021). Ten-Year Trends in Physical Dating Violence Victimization Among Adolescent Boys and Girls in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(9-10), 3947-3964. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518788367.
23. Male victims of domestic violence who report the crime were more likely to be arrested than the female abuser.
Douglas EM, Hines DA. The Helpseeking Experiences of Men Who Sustain Intimate Partner Violence: An Overlooked Population and Implications for Practice. J Fam Violence. 2011 Aug;26(6):473-485. doi: 10.1007/s10896-011-9382-4. PMID: 21935262; PMCID: PMC3175099.
24. Female criminals reported to police are less likely than male criminals to be arrested.
Lisa Stolzenberg, Stewart J. D'Alessio, Sex differences in the likelihood of arrest, Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pg 443-454, ISSN 0047-2352, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2004.06.006.
25. Men get 63% longer sentences than women for the same crime.
Starr, Sonja B., Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases (August 29, 2012). University of Michigan Law and Economics Research Paper, No. 12-018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2144002.
26. At least 11% of men are falsely accused of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, or other forms of abuse.
Stewart, Rebecca. "Survey: Over 20 Million Have Been Falsely Accused of Abuse." Center For Prosecutor Integrity, 17 Dec. 2020.
27. 40% of college women polled said they would happily make a malicious accusation.
Bertsch, S., Matthews, K. Lies and imagined intent to lie: Personality, sexism beliefs and false claims of assault. Curr Psychol 42, 9810–9818 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02278-2
28. Being falsey accused of a crime can be as traumatic to someone’s psyche as rape.
Brooks SK, Greenberg N. Psychological impact of being wrongfully accused of criminal offences: A systematic literature review. Med Sci Law. 2021 Jan;61(1):44-54. doi: 10.1177/0025802420949069. Epub 2020 Aug 17. PMID: 32807017; PMCID: PMC7838333.
29. Reported crimes with female victims have higher clearance rates than crimes with male victims.
Aki Roberts, The influences of incident and contextual characteristics on crime clearance of nonlethal violence: A multilevel event history analysis, Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pg 61-71, ISSN 0047-2352, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2007.12.007.
Avdija AS, Gallagher C, Woods DD. Homicide Clearance Rates in the United States, 1976-2017: Examining Homicide Clearance Rates Relative to the Situational Circumstances in Which They Occur. Violence Vict. 2022 Feb 1;37(1):101-115. doi: 10.1891/VV-D-20-00134. PMID: 35165162.
30. Both men and women actually see women as morally superior to men.
Eagly, A. H., Nater, C., Miller, D. I., Kaufmann, M., & Sczesny, S. (2019, July 18). Gender Stereotypes Have Changed: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of U.S. Public Opinion Polls From 1946 to 2018. American Psychologist. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000494.
31. Men are more likely to be altruistic to women than to men.
Saad, G., Gill, T. Sex Differences in the Ultimatum Game: An Evolutionary Psychology Perspective. Journal of Bioeconomics 3, 171–193 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020583425623
32. People are more supportive of women in male-dominated professions than vice versa.
Block, Katharina, et al. "Do People Care If Men Don't Care About Caring? The Asymmetry in Support for Changing Gender Roles." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 83, 2019, pp. 112-131, ISSN 0022-1031, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.03.013.
33. Mothers are more likely to stigmatize negative emotions from boys than fathers.
Thomassin, K., & Seddon, J. A. (2019). Implicit attitudes about gender and emotion are associated with mothers’ but not fathers’ emotion socialization. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 51(4), 254–260. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000142
34. Men receive more negative criticism than women for the same quality of performance.
Jampol L, Zayas V. Gendered White Lies: Women Are Given Inflated Performance Feedback Compared With Men. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2021 Jan;47(1):57-69. doi: 10.1177/0146167220916622. Epub 2020 May 18. PMID: 32418503.
35. Teachers gave girls higher grades for the same quality of work boys do on school-related papers, and boys overall have a disadvantage in the school system.
Hartley BL, Sutton RM. A stereotype threat account of boys' academic underachievement. Child Dev. 2013 Sep-Oct;84(5):1716-33. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12079. Epub 2013 Feb 12. PMID: 23402479.
Ilaria Lievore & Moris Triventi (2023) Do teacher and classroom characteristics affect the way in which girls and boys are graded?, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44:1, 97-122, DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2022.2122942
K-12 Education: Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities. GAO-18-258, Mar 22, 2018, released Apr 04, 2018, https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-258.
Terrier, Camille. "Boys Lag Behind: How Teachers' Gender Biases Affect Student Achievement." November 2016, The School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, MIT Department of Economics.
36. Both men and women have an equal likelihood of experiencing rape, domestic abuse, harassment, and possibly stalking from members of the opposite sex.
Stemple, Lara & Meyer, Ilan. (2014). The Sexual Victimization of Men in America: New Data Challenge Old Assumptions. American journal of public health. 104. e19-26. 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301946.
Straus, Murray. (2010). Thirty Years of Denying the Evidence on Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence: Implications for Prevention and Treatment. Partner Abuse. 1. 332-362. 10.1891/1946-6560.1.3.332.
Acquadro Maran D, Varetto A, Corona I, Tirassa M. Characteristics of the stalking campaign: Consequences and coping strategies for men and women that report their victimization to police. PLoS One. 2020 Feb 28;15(2):e0229830. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229830. PMID: 32109263; PMCID: PMC7048288.
37. Male victims of sexual coercion are not taken as seriously as female victims.
Anneloes Huitema & IneVanwesenbeeck (2016) Attitudes of Dutch citizens towards male victims of sexual coercion by a female perpetrator, Journal of Sexual Aggression, 22:3, 308-322, DOI: 10.1080/13552600.2016.1159343
38. Common reasons women give for abusing their male partners include feeling angry, or having their feelings hurt, but NEVER because of self-defense.
Hettrich, Emma & O'Leary, K. Daniel. (2007). Females' Reasons for Their Physical Aggression in Dating Relationships. Journal of interpersonal violence. 22. 1131-43. 10.1177/0886260507303729.
39. Male suicide is 4 times higher than females, even when they choose the same methods as females. And (according to NCISH) it’s not because men don’t seel help, a study of 1,500 men who committed suicide found that 91% had been in contact with a health agency to seek help.
Garnett, Matthew F. and Sally C. Curtin. "Suicide Mortality in the United States, 2001–2021." NCHS Data Brief, no. 464, April 2023.
Anna Cibis, Roland Mergl, Anke Bramesfeld, David Althaus, Günter Niklewski, Armin Schmidtke, Ulrich Hegerl, Preference of lethal methods is not the only cause for higher suicide rates in males, Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 136, Issues 1–2, 2012, Pages 9-16, ISSN 0165-0327, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2011.08.032.
The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH). Suicide by middle-aged men. 2021. The University of Manchester. https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=55305
40. Girls benefit more from teen suicide prevention programs than boys.
Hamilton E, Klimes-Dougan B. Gender differences in suicide prevention responses: implications for adolescents based on an illustrative review of the literature. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015 Feb 23;12(3):2359-72. doi: 10.3390/ijerph120302359. PMID: 25711358; PMCID: PMC4377906.
41. Men are as likely as women to develop depression.
Martin LA, Neighbors HW, Griffith DM. The experience of symptoms of depression in men vs women: analysis of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 Oct;70(10):1100-6. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.1985. PMID: 23986338.
I identify as an egalitarian. I support the rights of women and men alike, and I believe that no society can thrive when one half of its people are dismissed or devalued.
Saying “men have issues unique to them” does not mean “women don’t.” Recognizing the struggles one group faces should never require denying the struggles of another. Equality demands that we care about both—and refuse to treat empathy like a zero-sum game.
