Too many boys and men in the UK are struggling – at school, at work, and in their families and communities.
At the Institute for Men and Boys, we believe many of these challenges are structural and demand evidence-based policy solutions.
Our aim is to create a more equitable society by identifying challenges and promoting solutions that improve the well-being of men and boys – thus creating the most positive wider economic and social benefits for society at large.
We are very clear that tackling the challenges that men and boys will also improve the lives of the women and girls they share society with. We all rise together.
Five key statistics include
- 14 men per day die by suicide in the UK with the current English rate being the highest this century
- 260,000 young men (16-24) are unemployed
- 35,000 fewer 18 year-old-boys go to university than girls every year
- 81,000 men in England and Wales are in prison
- 3,200 men in England sleep rough every night