What is the Manosphere?
The manosphere has successfully leveraged male pain points and digital spaces using strategic messaging that speaks to young men’s lived challenges. Men’s crisis of connection is
The Manosphere, Rewired
When two-thirds of young men feel that “no one really knows” them, as State of American Men 2023 shows, they reveal the fragility of their connections and relationships. This “crisis of connection” collides with the reality that no one really seems to agree on what a “good man” looks like or how to become one. The combination of these two truths creates the perfect conditions for men to seek connection in the digital world via the manosphere – a diverse collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism – which swoops in to provide clear messages around gender and gender roles to make simple sense of an otherwise complicated world.
Celebrating Father’s Day 2024 with a Week of Action Alongside the U.S. Congressional Dads Caucus
Equimundo co-hosted events for Father’s Day Week of Action with the US Congressional Dads Caucus. Throughout the week of advocacy events with the Dads Caucus, we were joined by fathers and fatherhood champions including Congressman Jimmy Gomez, Chair of the Dads Caucus, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a founding member of both the Dads Caucus and Mamas Caucus, Chasten Buttigieg, an author, activist, and husband to Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Laura Modi, co-founder and CEO of the baby formula company Bobbie, and more.
The Care Burden Affects Us All: Assessing men’s stake as caregivers in the United States
Care work is in and of itself valuable and important, and it is also a critical part of our economy—it allows for labor participation and economic production—yet is too often underpaid and undervalued in this country. Data show that more than 80% of men believe that unpaid care work at home is as valuable as paid work, valuable to society, and that men and women should share care responsibilities equally.
Adapting Curricula for Community Impact
Creating Peace: A curriculum for promoting healing, nonviolence, racial justice, and gender equity among adolescents addresses the urgent issue of community violence impacting youth in urban neighborhoods
Moving From Crisis and Confusion to Hope: Recommendations for Policymakers, Parents, and Educators
Men in the US are in trouble – and that trouble affects us all. Many feel their lives are precarious, their futures uncertain, and their identities threatened.
Creating Peace
Engaging young people in peer dialogue, critical thinking, and activism, this program aims to address inequitable gender norms, promote racial justice, and ultimately reduce violence and discrimination in communities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Many Ways of Being: Co-creating a healthier, more inclusive future with youth
In a world where conversations around sexual and reproductive health can be shrouded in stigma and secrecy, it’s essential to create safe and inclusive spaces for young
Many Ways of Being (All genders, 15-19)
Many Ways of Being is a sex education curriculum focused on gender equity, healthy relationships, & safer sex practices. This inclusive, youth-centered program can be implemented in schools and community centers with youth of all genders ages 15-19.
Launching the State of America’s Fathers Report with the Congressional Dads Caucus
This June, Equimundo launched the 2023 edition of our State of America’s Fathers report during the Congressional Dads Caucus’ week of action for Father’s Day. During a
Many Ways of Being Sex Education Curriculum / Muchas Formas de Ser Educación Sexual Plan de Estudios
Many Ways of Being is a sex education program for young people of all gender identities, ages 15 to 19, aiming to promote healthy, consensual, and violence-free relationships among youth while reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unplanned pregnancy.
State of America’s Fathers 2023
The State of America’s Fathers study and report start from the belief that empowering and supporting men to be caregivers is necessary for all of us – for women and gender-diverse individuals and the equality they deserve, for children, for men themselves, and for our country.
Manhood 2.0: Lessons Learned from a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Young Men
Manhood 2.0 is an initiative developed by Equimundo and the University of Pittsburgh to engage adolescent boys and young men (ages 15-24) in reflecting on the impacts
State of American Men 2023
The inaugural State of American Men report by Equimundo, “From Crisis and Confusion to Hope,” seeks to understand the realities of men in 2023.
Who Cares About Fathers? Event Recap
On December 6th, 2022, Equimundo hosted a panel discussion in partnership with the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. on fatherhood and care equity.
Who Cares About America’s Male Caregivers?
As a country, we in the US face a storm of overlapping crises, resulting in exhaustion, grief, stresses on our mental health, polarization, and pessimism. In moments
This is Us? Report Launch Event Photo Recap
On June 8th we launched This is Us? How TV Does and Doesn’t Get Male Caregiving at the Ebell of Los Angeles with the report’s co-author, the
This is Us? How TV Does and Doesn’t Get Men’s Caregiving
Television has the power to shape our culture. Our report, This Is Us? How TV Does and Doesn’t Get Men’s Caregiving, hopes to inspire new stories and reimagine what caregiving can look like on television for the next generation.
The Double-Edged Sword of Online Gaming: An Analysis of Masculinity in Video Games and the Gaming Community
This groundbreaking study examines masculinity and representations of different identities (gender, race, LGBTQIA+ individuals, disability, age, and body size) in the most popular video games and in
Care Leads to Care
In March 2021, Equimundo and Dove Men+Care carried out a nationally-representative survey in the United States focused on the links between men’s care for themselves (physical, emotional
Findings and Lessons Learned From an Evaluation of a Community-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Young Men
Findings and Lessons Learned From an Evaluation of a Community-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Young Men provides a brief introduction to the Manhood 2.0 intervention, describes Child
NEW: Paid Leave Policies Key in Supporting Employees During COVID-19
Strong paid leave programs are proven to be a vital tool for protecting employees’ and businesses’ economic security and health during the current global pandemic. A new
The State of America’s Boys: An Urgent Case for a More Connected Boyhood
The State of America’s Boys: An Urgent Case for a More Connected Boyhood presents research and expert perspectives and investigates what it is about boyhood that too
If He Can See It, Will He Be It? Representations of Masculinity in Boys’ Television
“If He Can See It, Will He Be It? Representations of Masculinity in Boys’ Television” was developed through a collaboration among Equimundo, the Geena Davis Institute on