What Bhasin heard from her son didn’t reflect her household’s definition of what it means to be a man. She and her husband both work, they share chores and they both changed their two children’s ...

In this age of open discussion about the penises of a supreme court justice and the nation’s president, perhaps it’s no surprise that people as freely try to draw parallels between a man’s behaviors ...

Discussions about a "crisis in masculinity" are widespread. What is the nature of the crisis? It apparently has to do with contemporary uncertainties about what is masculinity, uncertainties over ...

Ella Kuskoff receives funding from the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (Project ID CE200100025). Michael Flood has received funding ...

The concept of toxic masculinity has received considerable attention in the past few years following the #Me-Too movement and various exposés of bro cultures, notably in the tech industry. But what ...

When I dated women, I thought my relationships would have better communication and mutual respect. I learned that behaviors related to toxic masculinity could appear in any relationship. People in ...

From her bedroom window, Dr. Zabina Bhasin could hear her son and his friends playing pretend in the yard. It was a pretty idyllic scene — until she heard her then-7-year-old’s voice: “I’m not your ...

Toxic masculinity gets thrown around as a buzzword sometimes, but at its root, it’s a multifaceted term to describe harmful masculinity. While toxic masculinity is ingrained in some areas of our ...