International Man's Day

Yes, that's right - it's today! What's more according to this text (cribbed shamelessly from the comments to  a feminist article by the once amusing Richard Herring) - we do get a poor deal see:-

1) Male suicide rate: 77.1% - Female suicide rate: 22.9%
2) Male workplace deaths: 93% - Female workplace deaths: 7%
3) Average male life expectancy: 78.9 years. - Average female life expectancy: 82.8 years
4) NHS spending on female-specific health conditions (breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, etc...) is eight times greater than NHS spending on male specific health conditions (prostate cancer, testicular cancer etc...) despite the fact that male-specific cancers tend to be more common and more dangerous.
5) When corrected for (a) choice of degree, (b) choice of career, (c) overtime hours worked, (d) propensity for part-time work, and (e) willingness to negotiate higher salaries, the much-vaunted gender pay gap shrinks from 23% to almost nothing (i). Indeed, once these necessary corrections are made, statistics show that women in their 20s out earn men (ii). Moreover, women tend to report much greater job satisfaction than men (iii). This is reflected in the suicide statistics cited at the top of this post. The "Happiness gap" barely gets mentioned.
6) Male criminals receive 63% longer prison sentences than female criminals who commit the exact same crimes.
I could go on, but I trust the point is made. International Men's Day should get more publicity than it does, and not just because Richard Herring wastes too much time on Twitter.

• Sources for above:
  1) 'A Crisis of Masculinity: Men are Struggling to Cope with Life' - Daily Telegraph, 19/11/2014
  2) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2013 - U.S. Bureau of Statistics, 11/09/2014.
  3) CIA World Fact Book.
  4) 'Men's Health Shock' Anthony Brown - Guardian, 08/01/ 2001.
  5) (i) '77 Cents on the Dollar Myth About Women's Pay' - Mark J. Perry & Andrew Biggs, Wall Street Journal, 07/04/2014 (ii) 'Women in their 20s Earn More Than Men of Same Age, Study Finds' - Guardian 29/08/2015. (iii) Gender Differences in Job Satisfaction - Randy Hodgson, Sociological Quarterly, Autumn 1989.
  6) Michigan Law Society - 'Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases' - Sonja Starr.