Why do we need to do this?
Why do we need to do this?
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The high male suicide rate
The challenges faced by boys and men at all stages of education and work including attainment, re-training, stress, redundancy and unemployment
Men’s health (including male cancers), shorter life expectancy, body image and workplace deaths – plus the health impact of Covid-19
The challenges faced by the most marginalised men and boys in society – for instance, homeless men, boys in care, school excluded boys and the high rate of male deaths in custody
Male victims of violence and crime – for instance, bullying, sexual violence, gang violence, and, those coerced into county lines and other criminal activity
The challenges faced by men as parents, particularly new fathers and separated fathers
The bias towards women in the childcare and court system
Male victims and survivors of sexual abuse, rape, sexual exploitation, domestic abuse, forced marriage, honour-based crime, stalking. online image-abuse, sextortion and modern slavery
Boys with no positive male role models in their lives
The negative portrayal of men, boys and fathers
What statistics are there to back this up?
What statistics are there to back this up?
TEN KEY FACTS ABOUT MEN AND BOYS’ WELLBEING IN THE UK
The House of Commons Library has a briefing packed with statistics about the wellbeing of men and boys as part of the House of Commons’ International Men’s Day debate in 2022.
The use of comparisons with women are for context reasons, it is not meant to draw competition between men and women.
(1) Prostate Cancer
On average, c12,000 men die from prostate cancer every year. This is 33 per day and one every 45 minutes.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in males in the UK, accounting for 14% of all cancer deaths in males in the UK.
There are more deaths to prostate cancer than breast cancer
(2) Mortality
1 in 5 UK men do not live to 65.
(3) Suicide
14 men die every day by suicide in the UK (three in every four) with a suicide rate increasing for the past four years. The suicide rate in England is the highest this century. Over 5,000 men every year die by suicide across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
(4) University Entry
In September 2024: 34,950 fewer 18-year-old UK boys started university in September than girls of the same age – 118,800 men (43.6% of total) and 153,750 women (56.4%).
(5) GCSEs
In 2022/23, 43% of boys receive Grade 5 or above GCSEs in English and Maths (47.2% girls). By 2019, boys have had worse exam results than girls for 30 years.
(6) Exclusions and NEETS
In 2022/23, 6,481 boys were excluded from school (69% of the total).
There are 493,000 young men (16-24) Not in Education, Employment and Training – 213,000 of which are unemployed.
(7) Rough Sleeping
3,214 men were found to be sleeping rough in Autumn 2023 in England. Men make up at least 82% of rough sleepers.
(8) Prison
There are over 90,000 men in prison – enough to fill Wembley Stadium. They make up 96% of the prison population.
(9) Domestic Abuse
751,000 men and 1.4 million women aged 16 and over were victims of domestic abuse in 2022/23. Men make up one in three of all victims of domestic abuse. 13 men died at the hands of their partner or ex-partner (ONS 2022/23).
(10) Sexual Violence/Abuse
275,000 men were estimated to have been victims of sexual assault in 2021/22*. 1.3 million men in total have been a victim of sexual assault since they were 16.
*Oct 21 to Mar 22.
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