Tip Sheet for Boys & Men

Good Work and Resources

Many people in this space are doing amazing work to encourage healthy masculinity and to evolve on-screen representations. Below are a list of some of them. Please let us know if there is someone we are missing!

• Boys and Sex, by Peggy Orenstein

• Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media

• IWeigh 

• Promundo

  • Global Boyhood Initiative

  • The Man Box: A Study on Being a Young Man in the US, UK, and Mexico

  • The Cost of the Man Box: A study on the economic impacts of harmful masculine stereotypes in the US, UK, and Mexico: Executive summary

• GLAAD

  • Where We Are on TV Report - 2019

  • 2019 GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index

• Plan International

• The Representation Project

• Decoding Boys, by Dr. Cara Natterson

• A Call to Men

• Common Sense Media 

  • Research and recommendations about media's impact on body image (all gender) and for boys in particular.

  • February 2020 conversation with Peggy Orenstein and Dr. Cara Natterson on their books Boys & Sex and Decoding Boys. (Use password "CSMConvo2020" to watch video). Here is a review of both books in the New York Times