This is the second part of a two-part article. Part 1 can be found here.

“This brings me to a final value of tonic masculinity as I see it emerging. And that is the work to be done of restoring harmony between the sexes, to return relations in the nuclear family and local community to a degree of genuinely democratic responsibility and caring for the other.”

This is the second of a two-part article. In Part 1 we saw that men make up only about 20% of clinical psychologists. For a field so focused on equality, this is a very large elephant in the room. Here, in the second part of this article, efforts to address this disparity - and responses to these efforts - are discussed.

I want to argue in favor of what I term tonic masculinity and what a dose of it might provide society to dispel some of the mystifications and often ironic ambiguities about sex and gender.

If the situation was reversed, I would never dismiss the contributions from female colleagues purely because they were female and their experiences were different to my own.

I have concerns as to how these inconsistencies and sweeping generalisations about men and boys go unchallenged.

educational underachievement can have personal costs to individuals and to society, especially when underachievement turns into delinquency and crime.

Anyone who knows about the educational underachievement of boys compared to girls will have been surprised by the headlines about the 2017 A-level results. But despite all these celebratory headlines, having looked in detail at gender differences in the available data, it seems this isn’t actually the turning point for boys that was so widely reported at all.