Why Gender Equality Is Good for Everyone — Men Included | Michael Kimmel | TED Talks

Yes, we all know it's the right thing to do. But Michael Kimmel makes the surprising, funny, practical case for treating men and women equally in the workplace and at home. It's not a zero-sum...

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I'm here to recruit men to support gender equality.(Cheers)Wait, wait. What?What do men have to do with gender equality?Gender equality is about women, right?I mean, the word gender is about women.Actually, I'm even here speaking as a middle class white man.Now, I wasn't always a middle class white man.It all happened for me about 30 years ago when I was in graduate school,and a bunch of us graduate students got together one day,and we said, you know, there's an explosionof writing and thinking in feminist theory,but there's no courses yet.So we did what graduate students typically do in a situation like that.We said, OK, let's have a study group.We'll read a text, we'll talk about it,we'll have ...