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"This book majors on the presentation of empirical evidence in the form of data. The most digestible form for communicating such material is through the use of Tables and Figures, generally graphs. Consequently, the book has a great many Tables and Figures and the latter are often in colour. Viewing on a device capable of rendering colours is therefore recommended although monochrome will be adequate in most cases."

The Empathy Gap proposes the thesis that men and boys are extensively disadvantaged across many areas of life, including in education, healthcare, genital integrity, criminal justice, domestic abuse, working hours, taxation, pensions, paternity, homelessness, suicide, sexual offences, and access to their own children after parental separation. The claim is justified in the book by empirical evidence, mostly but not exclusively from the UK, involving nearly 1,000 references, 179 Figures and 49 Tables. To most people, of both sexes, this will appear to be a perverse perspective as disadvantage has become the province of women, girls and minorities, not males. Yet the empirical case supporting the disadvantages suffered by men and boys is undeniable to the objective mind. But if this is so, why is the popular perception that males are privileged whereas disadvantage is the province of the opposite sex? Why do the male disadvantages go largely unremarked, by both sexes, if they are so pervasive?

Presenting the case for widespread and substantial male disadvantage is also a challenge to the usual hegemonic paradigm of feminist theory. These issues are addressed within The Empathy Gap by presenting an entirely different orientation on the social psychology of relations between the sexes. Out goes the idea of an oppressive patriarchy. Instead, a man's participation in the human pair bond is seen to be altruistic, a phenomenon arising originally from evolution and enacted in the individual via the emotional psyche. This is the origin of an asymmetry in the perception of the sexes which normalises the preferencing of females and therefore inevitably disadvantages males as a corollary. The successful evolved strategy involves male utility and relative male disposability, the latter being facilitated by a muted empathy for males, by both sexes - the empathy gap.

Rather than working to overcome this male disposability, as a true egalitarian movement would have done, feminism has fed upon it and amplified it. The feminist project relies upon the true state of affairs remaining unacknowledged, and the empathy gap is instrumental in its own invisibility. In respect of this theory, the author makes no claim for originality. The ideas presented have been circulating within the sub-culture for decades. However, the focus of the book is to show how these ideas are manifest in practice.

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Men's Studies

Social Science

Sociologie, société et politique

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Date de parution	12 juillet 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780957168893
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	16 Mo

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Testimonials
William Collins is a retired engineer and physicist who blogs on issues relating to men and boys at The Illustrated Empathy Gap (EmpathyGap.uk).
Testimonials for the paperback edition of this book include:

"The Empathy Gap is a fantastically comprehensive book... if you have a heart, and that heart is beating, run, do not walk, to your favorite bookstore or internet device and order this book. You will not regret it."
J Steven Svoboda, founder of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (1997), to educate the world that children do not need to have their genitals cut.

" This man is a master. I am in awe of his work."
Janice Fiamengo, Professor of English and author of Sons of Feminism: Men Have Their Say and Daughters of Feminism: Women Supporting Men ' s Equality

" The Illustrated Empathy Gap is my 'go to' website for first-class evidence-based research into the twenty-first century hostility destroying the family unit and gender-based hostility towards men and boys."
Erin Pizzey, founder of the world ' s first refuge for domestic violence victims

" William Collins is the most insightful blogger on gender issues in the world, on his website The Illustrated Empathy Gap. This book will tell you all you need to know about the devastating impacts of feminism on men and boys directly, and on women and girls indirectly. A tour de force ."
Mike Buchanan, founder and leader (2013-) of the British political party Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), author of Feminism: The Ugly Truth and The Glass Ceiling Delusion

" For someone like me who likes facts and figures, finding EmpathyGap.uk was like stumbling upon an amazing hidden treasure trove. The observations which I had been building up about the positions of men and women in society, in particular the difficulties which men faced, suddenly had a mountain of rigorous, dependable, and authoritative sources to back them up. To focus on the rigour of William ' s research does not begin to do it justice. He reminds us of exactly how damaging and perverse what has been happening is, bringing us down to earth with a bump."
Belinda Brown, researcher, writer and speaker on family, feminism and men

" For some years, William Collins has consistently been writing the most important journalism that is appearing anywhere in the English-speaking world. His unmatched powers of analysis and synthesis, together with an unswerving intellectual rigour and devotion to evidence-based reason, make his output a genuine treasure. Nobody on earth is doing more to demolish the wicked myths, pernicious fictions and poisonous superstitions of the modern feminist creed."
Neil Lyndon, journalist, author of No More Sex War and Sexual Impolitics

" The Empathy Gap should have been an academic text. However, being the most significant, comprehensive and serious book to be published on gender – quite probably bar none – academe ' s loss is wider society ' s gain."
Elizabeth Hobson, former leader (2020/21), Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them)

The Empathy Gap

Male Disadvantages and the
Mechanisms of Their Neglect

William Collins

LPS publishing
Publisher's note: While every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate, neither the publisher nor the author can accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the publisher or the author.

First edition published July 2019
This ebook edition published July 2021

Copyright © 2021 William Collins: The right of the author to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, distributed, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronics, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 9780957168893

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Contents
Testimonials
Preface to the 2021 eBook Edition
1. The Differently Gendered Society
1.1 Purpose of this Book
1.2 Equality?
1.3 What is the Origin of the Empathy Gap?
1.3.1 The Nine Factors Underlying the Empathy Gap
1.3.2 Discussion of the Factors Underlying the Empathy Gap
1.4 Aims and Limitations
2. Education
2.1 Primary School Attainment
2.2 Secondary School Attainment Aged 16
2.3 A Levels
2.4 University Entry
2.5 Gender Gap and the Nature of the Award
2.6 Innate Gender Difference? Adult Competencies
2.7 School Staff and Stereotyping
2.8 University Staff, STEMM and Athena Swan
2.9 Gender Skew in Provision
2.10 Perceptions and Expectations
2.11 Worldwide
2.12 Summary: The Education Empathy Gap
3. Physical Health and Longevity
3.1 Gender Disparity in Premature and Early Death
3.2 The Leading Causes of Premature Death (<75)
3.2.1 Cardiovascular Diseases
3.2.2 Cancers
3.2.3 HIV-AIDS
3.3 The Leading Causes of Early Death (<45)
3.4 Occupational Health and Workplace Injuries and Deaths
3.4.1 Workplace Deaths in History
3.4.2 Workplace Deaths Now
3.4.3 Non-Fatal Injuries at Work
3.4.4 Occupational Health Issues
4. Men's Access to Healthcare and Health Spending by Sex
4.1 Men's Access to Healthcare
4.2 Global Health of Men
4.3 Healthcare and Health Research Spending
4.3.1 USA Healthcare Spending by Sex
4.3.2 USA Health Research Spending by Sex
4.4 The Empathy Gap in Men's Health
5. Male Genital Mutilation: History and Harm
5.1 Anatomy, Histology and Function of the Foreskin
5.1.1 Foreskin Development: Retraction
5.2 The History of MGM
5.3 MGM Procedures, Practitioners and Risk
5.3.1 Risks of the Procedure
5.4 Prevalence and Incidence of MGM
5.5 The Harmful Effects of MGM
5.5.1 Studies of Sensitivity
5.5.2 Studies of Men's Sexual Experience after Circumcision
5.5.3 Survey Evidence: Men's Subjective Experience of Circumcision
6. MGM: Claimed Benefits and Legality
6.1 Background to the 2017 review of Morris et al
6.2 Critique of the claims of Morris et al, 2017.
6.2.1 Urinary Tract Infections
6.2.2 Phimosis
6.2.3 Balanitis / Candidiasis
6.2.4 Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
6.2.5 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
6.2.6 Other Diseases
6.3 The Opinion of Medical Bodies Worldwide
6.4 Legal Issues
6.4.1 The Illegality of MGM in the UK
6.4.2 Attempts to Make MGM Illegal in Other Countries
6.5 The Male Genital Mutilation Empathy Gap
7. Work, Pay, Tax, Spending and Pensions
7.1 UK Unemployment Data
7.2 UK Economic Inactivity
7.3 Gendered Occupations
7.3.1 The Public Sector
7.3.2 Armed Forces
7.3.3 Apprenticeships
7.3.4 The Gender Equality "Paradox"
7.3.5 Diversity?
7.4 The UK Gender Pay Gap
7.5 Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Company Submissions
7.6 Working Hours: The Gender Pay Gap is a Work Gap
7.7 Spending and Wealth by Sex
7.7.1 UK in Year 1993/4
7.7.2 Wealth and Spending, UK and USA, 2008 to 2018
7.8 Income Taxes
7.9 Pensions
7.9.1 Occupational and Personal Pensions; the Private and Public Sectors
7.9.2 The State Pension
7.9.3 Numbers of Payees and Recipients
7.9.4 Gender Pension Inequality?
7.10 Housework and Unpaid Caring
7.10.1 Men and Housework
7.10.2 Men as Unpaid Carers
7.11 The Empathy Gap in Work, Pay, Wealth, Spending and Taxes
8. Imprisonment
8.1 Harsher Treatment for Men
8.1.1 Harsher Treatment Over Time
8.1.2 Harsher Treatment by Sex
8.2 Pop Goes the Woozle
8.3 Characteristics of Prisoners
8.3.1 Children in Prison
8.3.2 Prisoners' IQ
8.4 Male Prisoners and Their Families
8.5 Self-Harming in Prison
8.6 Deaths in Prison
8.6.1 Suicide in Prison
8.6.2 Deaths in Prison from 'Natural' Causes
8.7 The Empathy Gap in Imprisonment
9. Violence and Abuse
9.1 All Violence
9.1.1 Victims
9.1.2 Perpetrators
9.2 Violence and Abuse Within the Home: Men as Victims
9.2.1 Incidence of Male Victims: Survey Data
9.2.2 Severe Force
9.2.3 Demographic Dependence of DA
9.2.4 Domestic Violence and Marital Status
9.2.5. Repeated Domestic Abuse
9.2.6 Reports to Police, Prosecutions and Convictions
9.2.7 Domestic Homicides
9.2.8 International Studies of Domestic Abuse
9.2.9 Dads as Victims of Domestic Violence
9.2.10 Domestic Abuse Services: The Sexes Compared
9.2.11 Perpetrator Programmes
9.3 The Empathy Gap for Men as Victims of Violence
10. Family Court Statistics
10.1 Family Court Statistics (England and Wales)
10.2 The Paramountcy Principle and the Perception of Risk
10.3 Legal Aid, LASPO and the Role of False Allegations
10.3.1 Legal Aid and LASPO
10.3.2 The Domestic Violence Legal Aid Gateway
10.3.3 Prevalence of Allegations of Domestic Abuse
10.3.4 Which Sex Gets Legal Aid in the Family Courts?
10.3.5 Routes through the Gateway
10.3.6 Statistics of Domestic Violence Remedy Orders
10.4 Lobbying and Serious Case Reviews
10.5 The Empathy Gap Against Fathers in the Family Courts
11. Are the Family Courts Biased Against Fathers?
11.1. Introduction
11.2 The 2008 Study of Hunt & MacLeod
11.3 Lawyers', Judges' and Court Officers' Opinions
11.4 The 2015 Study of Harding and Newnham
11.5 Enforcement
11.6 What Proportion of Separating Couples Apply to Court?
11.7 Actual Contact Outcomes
11.8 Financial Issues
11.9 The Empathy Gap Against Non-Resident Fathers
12. Parental Alienation, ACEs and the Woozling of Shared Parenting
12.1 What is Parental Alienation?
12.1.1 Prevalence of Alienation
12.2 Adverse Childhood Exp