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Sea Change as Lawmakers Set Out to Remedy Disparities Affecting Men

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Robert Thompson: 301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

Sea Change as Lawmakers Set Out to Remedy Disparities Affecting Men

WASHINGTON / April 9 – The debate surrounding gender issues has undergone a sea change in recent months as lawmakers are now speaking out on the disparities affecting men. The sea change traces back to November 5, 2024 when millions of White, Hispanic, and Black men voted for presidential candidate Donald Trump, thereby reshaping the political landscape (1).

Previously, persons had assumed that men were the “winners” on the full range of gender issues. But a recently published analysis identifies 12 areas in which men are substantially lagging behind women. These disparities include lower enrollment in higher education, five-year shorter life span, dramatically higher rates of homelessness, and nine other areas (2).

Last month the International Council for Men and Boys released a historic New York Declaration for Men and Boys, designed to galvanize global attention about the pressing needs facing men (3).

Both Democratic and Republican leaders have become actively engaged in this debate. In the past month:

  • On March 20, Republican Secretary of Education Linda McMahon commented, “Education, originally, begins in the home with the nuclear family…We got a fatherless crisis going on in this country. Far too many kids are growing up without a father, and all the statistics show that kids who grow up with a father in the home perform better in education.” (4)
  • Four days later, NBC News published an article titled, “The Plight of Boys and Men, Once Sidelined by Democrats, Is Now a Priority.” (5) The commentary highlighted statements made by Democratic governors Wes Moore of Maryland, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, and Ned Lamont of Connecticut that are supportive of men and fathers.

Women also are supportive of establishing male-specific programs. A recent YouGov survey found that 73% of female respondents agreed that society should invest in addressing the societal challenges that men face, such as higher rates of suicide, homelessness, and work fatalities (6).

University of Virginia Professor Brad Wilcox recently revealed, “Our research at the Institute for Family Studies has demonstrated the catastrophic social consequences of absentee fatherhood and family breakdown.” (7)

In response, bills designed to promote and celebrate fatherhood currently are being debated in state legislatures around the country:

  • Missouri HB927
  • Missouri HB1441
  • Missouri HB380
  • Missouri SB262
  • New York A01211
  • New York A07035
  • North Carolina HB 780
  • Tennessee HB1131
  • Texas HB3784
  • Texas HCR16

More information about each of these bills is available online (8).

SAVE encourages state lawmakers to sponsor, support, and enact bills designed to address the disparities affecting men and fathers.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process, fairness, and equal opportunities for men.

Links:

  1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-support-among-men-reshaped-the-political-landscape/
  2. https://www.saveservices.org/2025/01/12-areas-of-male-disadvantage-in-the-united-states/
  3. https://www.menandboys.net/declaration/
  4. https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/166871/trump-admin-blames-fatherless-crisis
  5. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/plight-boys-men-democrats-wes-moore-gretchen-whitmer-rcna197129
  6. https://www.menandboys.net/pr/women-strongly-support-new-york-declaration-for-men-and-boys/
  7. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/progressives-are-starting-to-come-around-on-the-importance-of-marriage-and-fatherhood/
  8. https://www.saveservices.org/2025/04/state-bills-to-strengthen-and-celebrate-fathers/
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Deceptive Feminist Narrative Has Tragic Consequences for Men’s Health

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Robert Thompson: 301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

Deceptive Feminist Narrative Has Tragic Consequences for Men’s Health

WASHINGTON / February 10 – Seven offices of women’s health currently exist in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:

  1. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health (1)
  2. National Institutes of Health (2)
  3. Food and Drug Administration (3)
  4. Centers for Disease Control (4)
  5. Health Resources and Services Administration (5)
  6. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (6)
  7. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (7)

But inexplicably, DHHS does not have a single office of men’s health.

Feminists claim these offices are necessary to make up for decades of the purported exclusion of women from medical research and the underfunding of women’s health research.

For example, a 1993 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine asserted, “There is little doubt that women have been systematically excluded as subjects for study. . . most clinical trials have been heavily, if not exclusively, weighted toward men.” (8)

More recently, former First Lady Jill Biden made this claim: “Research on women’s health has been underfunded for decades, and many conditions that mostly or only affect women, or affect women differently, have received little to no attention.” (9)

But a review of the facts reveals the opposite to be true:

  1. As early as the 1970s, women were represented in 96% clinical trials sponsored by the NIH (10).
  2. An analysis of clinical trials conducted 1966-1990 found that women participated in 577 trials, compared to only 456 trials that included men (11).
  3. In 1994, the National Institutes of Health began to track the number of men and women in clinical trials, which revealed that women represented 51.8% of trial enrollees, with men being 44.9% of enrollees. The sex of the remaining persons was not reported (12).

In order to compensate for the presumed exclusion of women from research, budgets for women’s health were increased dramatically. In 2000, DHHS allocated approximately $5 billion to women’s health research and education, while the budget allocation of the DHHS men’s health programs was only $963.6 million, representing a 5:1 sex imbalance (13).

By any measure, the health of men is lagging behind the health of women:

  • Life Expectancy: The lifespan of men is 76.1 years, compared to 81.1 years for women (14).
  • Suicide: Men experience suicide rates that are nearly three times higher than women: Men: 14.7/100,000 persons; Women: 5.3/100,000. (15)
  • Workplace: Men face 15 times the number of occupational deaths, compared to women: Men: 6.2 deaths/100,000 workers, Women: 0.4/100,000 workers. (16)

How is it possible that our society has allowed a false narrative to persist for over 30 years, resulting in millions of dollars being spent on duplicative and unaccountable women’s health programs, while ignoring the suffering and deaths of men?

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process, fairness, and equal opportunities for men.

Links:

  1. https://womenshealth.gov/
  2. https://orwh.od.nih.gov/
  3. https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/office-commissioner/office-womens-health
  4. https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/index.html
  5. https://www.hrsa.gov/office-womens-health
  6. https://www.ahrq.gov/topics/women.html
  7. https://www.samhsa.gov/about/advisory-councils/advisory-committee-womens-services
  8. Angell M. Caring for women’s health—What is the problem? N Engl J Med 1993; 329: 271–272.
  9. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/20/women-health-research-jill-biden-white-house
  10. Dickersin K, Min Y. NIH clinical trials and publication bias. Online J Curr Clin Trials. Doc. 50, vol. 2, April 28, 1993.
  11. https://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2001/09000/Did_Medical_Research_Routinely_Exclude_Women__An.20.aspx , Table 3.
  12. National Institutes of Health. Implementation of the NIH Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research, December 1998.
  13. https://www.saveservices.org/2024/11/mens-health-programs-lag-by-a-51-margin-at-dhhs/
  14. https://menshealthnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/healthindicators.pdf
  15. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/326948/WHO-MSD-MER-19.3-eng.pdf
  16. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hf1zRYHNDJjvunWWeoOl33VTVmPADtijzMniAmxBPRE/edit#gid=381346579
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Statement by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in Support of Men and Boys

Statement by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in Support of Men and Boys

Delivered on February 5, 2025

https://governor.maryland.gov/news/press/pages/governor-wes-moore-delivers-2025-state-of-the-state-address.aspx

Lastly, investing in our people means following the data – And the data is telling us that we need to have a greater statewide focus on supporting and elevating our men and boys.

And it’s not just that in Maryland, labor force participation for young men is nearly the lowest it has been in two decades…

It’s also that suicide rates among men under 30 have risen by more than a third since 2010.

Across the country, college attainment levels are the same now for men and boys as they were in 1964.

And Maryland still sends youth under the age of 18 to our state prisons at twice the national rate.

The data is telling us a clear message: We need to better understand and address what’s happening with our men and boys.

I want to be clear: This administration remains steadfast in our support for all Marylanders, regardless of their gender or background.

As the father of a son and a daughter, I want both of my children growing up with all of their God-honoring and God-given opportunities –

But if we want to truly unleash the power of Maryland’s labor force, we need to make sure our men and boys aren’t still falling behind.

I strongly believe our mission to uplift men and boys isn’t in conflict with our values to leave no one behind – it’s in concert with them.

In the words of the great Marylander Frederick Douglass: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

And we have already started doing exactly that – in ways that uplift our men and boys and help support the aspirations of all Marylanders.

In 2023, we launched a first-in-the-nation Service Year Option to help high school graduates find their path and purpose.

In 2024, we made sure that we rewarded our service members through policies to support both veterans and military families.

And in 2025, I will be directing my entire administration to begin implementing targeted solutions to uplift our men and boys.