Gender relations are changing - rapidly for some, far too slowly for others.
One thing is certain: Within just a few decades, men* have given up or lost their legal supremacy.
or lost it. Remaining privileges (e.g. higher wages, better opportunities for promotion, less sexualisation of bodies, greater attribution of competence, etc.), the consequences of one-sidedly career-oriented lifestyles (e.g. stress, burnout, lower life expectancy, etc.) and other traditional notions of masculinity (e.g. risky behaviour, tendency towards violence, resistance to education) are also being increasingly problematised by a wider public.
Keyword: toxic masculinity.
Nevertheless, old norms of masculinity remain effective. There is a vacuum of orientation as to how being a man can succeed in a contemporary and sustainable way and be positively characterised. In terms of the diagnosis of the times, "a contradictory simultaneity of persistence and change" (Prof Andrea Maihofer) can be observed.
In this field of tension, boys, men and fathers are still largely left to their own devices with their insecurities, concerns and vulnerabilities. More and more
However, there is a growing need and willingness on the part of specialist organisations and advice centres, primary care providers and cost bearers to use and strengthen the expertise of boys', men's and fathers' work.
and fatherhood work.
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