A report examined how public policy could support and engage with men and boys effectively, and outlined practical proposals for reform. A more sophisticated public debate was needed about masculinity issues, going beyond stereotypes of men as either oppressors or victims, 'in control' or 'in crisis'. Alongside efforts to improve the position and status of women, public policy needed to respond urgently to the problems that men and boys created, and the problems that they experienced.
Source: Sandy Ruxton, Man Made: Men, masculinities and equality in public policy, Coalition on Men and Boys (info@comab.org.uk)
Links: Report | Summary | Fatherhood Institute press release
Date: 2009-Jul
A report examined why minority-ethnic women as a group experienced considerably higher rates of poverty than white women. It looked at household dynamics, moving beyond paid employment as a panacea for poverty; and at how women's lives changed over their lifetimes.
Source: Zohra Moosa with Jessica Woodroffe, Poverty Pathways: Ethnic minority women's livelihoods, Fawcett Society (020 7253 2598)
Links: Report | Summary | Fawcett Society press release
Date: 2009-Jun