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| '''Men's Rights''' began as a recognisable movement in the 1980s, largely in response to the women's rights or ] movement. It aims to address issues of concern to men and to remove institutional and societal discrimination against males. | '''Men's Rights''' began as a recognisable movement in the 1980s, largely in response to the women's rights or ] movement. It aims to address issues of concern to men and to remove what it believes is institutional and societal ] against males. | ||
| Those in the Men's rights movement often do not consider themselves to be ], and quite often do not subscribe to a recognisable orthodoxy or gender ideology. | Those in the Men's rights movement often do not consider themselves to be ], and quite often do not subscribe to a recognisable orthodoxy or gender ideology. | ||
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Men's Rights began as a recognisable movement in the 1980s, largely in response to the women's rights or feminist movement. It aims to address issues of concern to men and to remove what it believes is institutional and societal discrimination against males.
Those in the Men's rights movement often do not consider themselves to be masculist, and quite often do not subscribe to a recognisable orthodoxy or gender ideology.
Amongst Men's Rights advocates there are a number of women, including those in significant positions in the movement. For example, Sue Price in the Mens' Rights Agency has been at the forefront of activism to eliminate discrimination against men in Australia. Men's rights advocates are not a uniform group: they include both singularly religious and atheistic individuals, as well as those from the left and right of politics. Supporters of Men's rights also include both heterosexuals and homosexuals. Most supporters of Men's rights are from western nations, where gender equity has for some time been advocated mainly from a women's perspective.
Some typical issues which the men's rights movement has identified in many western societies are:
- Discrimination against men in family law
- Discrimination against men in areas of procreation
- Legal institutional discrimination against men in employment
- Practices which discriminate against boys in education
- Compulsory military service for males only
The Men's Rights movement has grown and changed in character since the 1980s. Just as the women's rights movement was small and lacked political power during its early beginnings in the 1800s, so the much younger men's rights movement is small and lacking in significant organisation or influence.