Danger: men at work

Men at work: the StackOverflow case

Online communities are flourishing as social meeting web-spaces for users and peer community members. Different online communities require different levels of competence for participants to join, and scattered evidence suggests that the female gender and minorities can be under-represented. Here we focus on the popular programming-related Q&A website StackOverflow. StackOverflow is based on ear...

Men at Work -- Sperm on Break

Measuring Railway Signals Passed At Danger

One of the key hazardous events in railways is signals passed at danger (SPAD). SPAD events are relatively common, most with minor consequence. However, SPAD events with catastrophic consequences happen sufficiently often to be a concern within the rail industry. A SPAD event is a precursor to a train collision or derailment; hence there is a strong focus on measuring and reducing their frequen...

The danger of sedenterism: endothelium at risk.

HABITUAL PHYSICAL inactivity, otherwise known as sedenterism, is a leading cause of excessive and preventable cardiovascular risk (4). Less than half of U.S. adults met recommended physical activity standards in 2007, and nearly one-quarter of the U.S. population reported no leisure time physical activity in 2008 with rates of sedenterism above 30% for those over the age of 65 (3). While the ex...

Changing Men: Best practice in violence prevention work with men

Among males, violence prevention work aims to lessen the likelihood of boys and men using violence. Strategies of violence prevention undermine the beliefs, values and discourses which support violence, challenge the patriarchal power relations which promote and are maintained by violence, and promote alternative constructions of masculinity, gender and selfhood which foster non-violence and ge...