It's A Man's World - What Happens Next? podcast exploring modern masculinity
In the next three podcast episodes we're looking at a new topic – what modern masculinity looks like.
The murder of women at the hands of their male partners and former partners continues. In the past week alone in Australia, one woman has died and another was seriously injured. A former Justice of the High Court of Australia was found by an independent inquiry to have sexually harassed six of his female associates and the Covid19 outbreak increases the risk of family violence. All of these issues highlight the frightening statistics around domestic violence and have generated calls for change in the way we deal with issues relating to masculinity.
Steve Roberts is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. His research is largely based around identifying positive examples of masculinity and finding ways to amplify them. George Variyan is a lecturer in Educational Leadership at Monash University and his research explores masculinity at elite all-boys schools. They both agree recent events remind us how far we have to go. As far as a dystopian future and what it might look like, Steve believes we are already here and are living it. George fears for the future of young men if the marketised model of high fee-paying schools doesn’t change.
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