On April 22, 2005, Harvard University’s Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative (MBB) held a defining debate on the public discussion that began on January 16th with the public comments by Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard, on sex differences between men and women and how they may relate to the careers of women in science. The Science of Gender […]

TVNZ has an extensive report with video on the Stephen Jelicich case: A long and public tug of love entered another phase last week when a family court judge ruled that nine-month-old Caitlin Jelicich could return to Wales with her mother. Within hours the pair were on a flight out of Auckland before Caitlin’s father […]

TV One News Summit tackles men’s issues (includes streaming video). The state of “New Zealand manhood” was the topic of the first ever Men’s Issues Summit at Auckland on Friday. Bleak predictions of the future of the New Zealand male were being made at the summit, which was held at the Waitakere City Council Chambers. […]

Firstly, welcome to any new readers who heard about MENZ Issues for the first time at the Summit yesterday. I look forward to any contributions you might be inspired to make. I have to confess that my note-keeping tailed off somewhat after the first few sessions, however if all goes according to plan there will […]

Today’s summit at the Waitakere City Council chambers got off to a late start, which as it turned out was lucky because opening speaker John Tamihere was also slightly delayed. We were informed that his son had needed a bit of fatherly input into the matter of him staying at school for longer than it […]

A father prepared to go to any lengths necessary to regain contact with his children (including enlisting the services of NZ’s Wizard), recently made a one-man Hikoi to Wellington to try and draw attention to his grievances. The latest development in the long campaign by Ben Easton has seen him jailed in Auckland for breaching […]