Men at Work

Men at work: the StackOverflow case

Online communities are flourishing as social meeting web-spaces for users and peer community members. Different online communities require different levels of competence for participants to join, and scattered evidence suggests that the female gender and minorities can be under-represented. Here we focus on the popular programming-related Q&A website StackOverflow. StackOverflow is based on ear...

Men at Work -- Sperm on Break

Changing Men: Best practice in violence prevention work with men

Among males, violence prevention work aims to lessen the likelihood of boys and men using violence. Strategies of violence prevention undermine the beliefs, values and discourses which support violence, challenge the patriarchal power relations which promote and are maintained by violence, and promote alternative constructions of masculinity, gender and selfhood which foster non-violence and ge...

Toward a mandatory work policy for men.

Lawrence Mead addresses the problem of nonwork among low-income men, particularly low-income black men, and its implications for families and children. The poor work effort, he says, appears to be caused partly by falling wages and other opportunity constraints but principally by an oppositional culture and a breakdown of work discipline. Mead argues that if government policies are to increase ...

Work and Masculinity among Peruvian Urban Men