Michael Kimmel

Sexual harassment starts well before women enter the workplace.
A remarkable global collaboration is underway in support of gender equality, and universities are playing a key role in it. The initiative is UN Women's HeForShe campaign, and its 30 Founding IMPACT Champions are 10 universities, 10 corporations, and 10 heads of state.
The new generation of women at work has been peeled, prodded and parsed from every angle -- their education, their numbers, their issues, their needs, their frustrations. But you would be hard-pressed to find one illuminating equivalent study on the male side of the gender divide.
Sociologist Michael Kimmel's new book, Angry White Men, dissects the rage many of these men experience and connects it with the anger experienced by a diverse collection of middle and lower-middle-class white boys and men.
To believe that you can change the meaning of a word by turning it into a metaphor or a joke is the essence of male entitlement.
It's about expanding the definition of human to include what is female and about working together to dismantle systematized biases in culture.