Ashley McGrath: Gender inequities mean being a bloke is far from easy

There is a worrying trend in which the gender equity narrative is exclusively framed on the rights and outcomes for women and girls.

The key word here is exclusively. Fairness in outcomes for women and girls is absolutely core to a gender equitable world — but not at the exclusion of fairness in outcomes for men and boys.

The trend has gone so far that the gender equity movement calls for men to be “allies”.

There are even training and sponsorship programs centred on the concept.

Gender equity is concerned with fairness in rights, opportunities and outcomes for people of all genders and considers the starting point of men and women on different issues. Allyship on the topic of gender equity is therefore everyone’s business.

There are serious societal, health and economic issues which