The Myth of Male Privilege

A list of "Male Privileges".

Men working longer hours

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/time-spent-working-by-full-and-part-time-status-gender-and-location-in-2014.htm

https://www.prb.org/workingaroundtheclock/

Gender sentencing disparity

https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_gender_disparities.aspx

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/female-sex-offenders-more-common-gender-bias-statistics-rape-abuse-a7839361.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14533025

http://www.ncdsv.org/images/fc_sex-basedsentencingdiscrepanciesbetweenmaleandfemalesexoffenders_2012.pdf

Gender wage-gap myth

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karinagness/2016/04/12/dont-buy-into-the-gender-pay-gap-myth/#5b65f3322596

http://www.aei.org/publication/there-really-is-no-gender-wage-gap-there-is-a-gender-earnings-gap-but-paying-women-well-wont-close-that-gap/

https://www.payscale.com/gender-lifetime-earnings-gap

Men have shorter life expectancy

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932837/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274513/life-expectancy-in-north-america/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-life-expectancy-lo/

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/5/e014489

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_04.pdf

75% of chronically homeless are men

https://www.nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/June2001HealingHands.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8243048

https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2016-AHAR-Part-1.pdf

More deaths from prostate cancer than breast cancer, breast cancer recieves 4 times more funding

https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/facts-and-figures-2018-rate-of-deaths-from-cancer-continues-decline.html

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjebmspotlight/2018/03/09/prostate-cancer-now-kills-more-people-than-breast-cancer-cause-for-alarm/

https://prostate.org.nz/2014/01/men-die-earlier-womens-health-gets-four-times-funding/

Teaching bias against boys

https://mitili.mit.edu/sites/default/files/project-documents/SEII-Discussion-Paper-2016.07-Terrier.pdf

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ccap/2012/02/16/the-male-female-ratio-in-college/#4ccc15dafa52

"Forced-to-Penetrate" as being unique from rape

http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/forced-to-penetrate-cases/

http://theconversation.com/men-forced-to-have-sex-with-women-arent-being-properly-recognised-by-the-law-legal-expert-81638

https://ucr.fbi.gov/nibrs/2012/resources/nibrs-offense-definitions

http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/14750/1/RumneySJSJ.pdf

3% of alimony awarded to men in the USA

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmajohnson/2014/11/20/why-do-so-few-men-get-alimony/#38eb7e7d54b9

41.3% of custodial fathers did not receive child support from non-custodial mother. 28.8% of custodial mothers.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/demo/P60-262.pdf

Only 17.5% of all fathers that apply for are awarded primary custody

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/P60-255.pdf

Mothers were more likely than fathers to be physically abusive towards their children (49% of incidents compared to 40%)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16165212

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/kids/why-arent-we-talking-about-abusive-mums/news-story/629b48b93abd22be2b63f1344c0c5de6

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1854883/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/somatic-psychology/201105/who-are-the-perpetrators-child-abuse

Mothers more likely to kill their children than fathers

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/childmaltreatment-facts-at-a-glance.pdf

Men and boys experience higher rates of domestic violence, are less likely to report it, and have far fewer resources at their disposal:

https://ojp.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/2009/BJS10007.htm

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/213503.pdf

http://www.unicef.org/protection/files/BehindClosedDoors.pdf

Bonus: "For every 100 girls..."

https://www.edweek.org/media/every100girls-32boys.pdf

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