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Looking for scholarly sources on the mens rights and equality

Cannon0006 · 2015-11-15T01:27:19+00:00

For the final project in my ENG-102 class, we need to write about a topic, and it just happened to be social inequalities. It was going good, she said we...

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November 15, 2015

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Title	Looking for scholarly sources on the mens rights and equality
Author	Cannon0006
Upvotes	5
Comments	3
Date	November 15, 2015 1:27 AM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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[–]GenderNeutralLanguag 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Your going to have a problem with most sources having a very VERY feminist slant to them. This doesn't mean you can't find sources. You will just have to go for the direct data, not the interpretations or absracts.

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf

If you look at the actual numbers men are "Forced to Penetrate" at the same rate women are "Penetrated by force". You can find similar data if you actually look at the data for most reports. The 60/40 split favoring women in higher education is fairly well documented. There will be many Scholarly journals that cite this, you just have to ignore the rationalizations for why we should ignore it presented in the journal. Recognition for most Men's Rights issues is documented in scholarly journals, it just gets dismissed as "The Patriarchy" backfiring or "Toxic Masculinity". To address Fathers Rights, you will have no problems finding sources for how put upon and common single mothers are. These are sources that fit the criteria, and you can argue that the solution isn't more government subsidies for single mothers, but for more courts to award custody to the fathers more often.

If you want more specifics than this, your going to need to be more specific in what your focus is. I can link Scholarly works documenting the rate of infant genital mutilation preformed on males is, but that won't help if your not covering that topic.

[–]Cannon0006[S] 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

[–]GenderNeutralLanguag 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

For casting a broad net, you won't have a problem finding sources. Look for raw data, not interpretations of that data. Pull raw data from sources to compare men and women. If you check definitions that the studies use, you can often find better comparisons than the abstract uses. The CDC study I linked is the perfect example. They split "Forced to have sex" into "forced by a man" and "forced by a woman" and only counted "forced by a man" as "rape"

I don't have access to databases of scholarly articles from this terminal, and even then the links wouldn't work. What you need from us isn't to do the research for you, but the tools needed to do the research yourself.

Go to your library and get the librarian to show you how to search data bases of scholarly articles. Once searching, search for data in pairs. The information on infant genital mutilation will be split between articles on "Female Genital Mutilation" and "Circumcision".

To talk about the issues faced by male DV victims look up the rates of male DV victims, the CDC study I linked puts it at 25% of victims are male. And compare this to services offered to male DV victims and funding for these services.

The information on child custody will be really easy because this is an issue feminists almost agree with MRA on, the articals will have the data you need they will just also say it's the men's fault that the courts are bias because penis.

There are the education issues. Enrollment and graduation rates by gender should be very easily searchable. For this topic looking at both overall enrollment rates and comparing STEM to female dominated fields like education and nursing.

That is 4 topics. Each one could very easily be 3-5 pages by it's self. I very much doubt that you've been assigned a 20 page paper in ENG-102 with only 2-3 weeks left in the semester.