{"id":313,"date":"2019-01-10T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T10:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=313"},"modified":"2019-01-10T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T10:38:16","slug":"international-mens-day-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"International Men\u2019s Day survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Athena SWAN team used the occasion of International Men\u2019s Day (19<sup>th<\/sup> November) to capture the views of our male colleagues on gender equality in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>We designed a short survey that allowed a lot of free text comments and we are very grateful to the 68 respondents who took time to share their thoughts, experiences and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The key themes arising from the responses were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a feeling that the work on gender equality, including Athena SWAN and some of the parental support is primarily targetted at women<\/li>\n<li>the expectations on men and views of masculinity that can impact on experience and decision making<\/li>\n<li>a desire to work more flexibly but a level of discomfort about asking to do so<\/li>\n<li>different perceptions of the gender pay gap in general and at the University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These insights are really valuable and will certainly help shape the work of the Athena SWAN team.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any additional thoughts or views please get in touch <a href=\"mailto:athenaswan@kent.ac.uk\">athenaswan@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=313&amp;t=International Men\u2019s Day survey' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=International Men\u2019s Day survey%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=313' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=313' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=313&amp;title=International Men\u2019s Day survey' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=313&amp;title=International Men\u2019s Day survey' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Athena SWAN team used the occasion of International Men\u2019s Day (19th November) to capture the views of our male colleagues on gender equality in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=313\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51029,"featured_media":314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}