The Nuzzo Letter

On January 20, 2026, I published an essay titled, “ Backlash Against the Backlash: Feminists Reveal Their 2026 Playbook .” In the essay, I commented on two items written by feminist authors. The first item was an article published in Foreign Affairs , titled, “ How to Save the Fight for Women’s Rights: The Backlash Against Democracy Calls for New Strategies .” The second item was a report publishe...

“Shorter life expectancy among men in general, if likely avoidable, would clearly be an issue of public health importance based on the magnitude of potential population impact. However, men as a group have more wealth, influence, and prestige, so this difference would not be a social injustice and, therefore, not a health disparity or equity issue.” That statement was written in a paper published...

LEADING ARTICLE Source of Usual Health Care for Adults Age 18 and Older: United States, 2024 NCHS Data Brief Summary: In 2024, 9 in 10 adults reported having a source of usual health care, with women more likely to report having a source of usual care (93.3%) than men (87.1%). Women were more likely to report a doctor’s office or health center as their source of usual care (82.2%) compared with me...

On March 12, 2026, ABC News in Australia published an article titled, “ Teachers, schools given handbook to combat misogynistic behaviour in classrooms .” The article highlighted a new guide published by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety and Monash University titled, “ An Introductory Guide to the Manosphere and the Impacts for Young People, Teachers and Schools .” In t...

In the Rubbish Bin of the Weekly Roundup on July 27, 2025, I included a paper published in the journal Men and Masculinities titled, “ Mapping of the Neo-Manosphere(s): New Directions for Research .” This paper was authored by Vivian Gerrand, Debbie Ging, Joshua Roose, and Michael Flood. The paper and its authors were supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC). ARC is one of Australia’s ma...

On February 9, 2026, the Australian Communications and Media Authority – an agency within the country’s federal government – announced that it will be awarding several million dollars in grants for its latest taxpayer-funded adventure, the eSafety Commissioner’s Preventing Tech-based Abuse of Women Grants Program . The stated aim of the program is to “improve the safety of Australian women and the...

On Christmas Eve 2025, a women’s magazine called Evie Magazine published an article titled, “ Why Does Hollywood Keep Telling Women To Pick Broke Men ?” The author of the article was Carmen Schober. Schober’s general thesis was that modern Hollywood movies often show women choosing subpar men over better men, with female characters “following their hearts” and pursing a “man-child-turned-hero-fant...

In April of 2025, the Journal of Academic Ethics published a paper titled, “ Exercise Science Students as Research Participants in Faculty-Led Research: An Ethical Dilemma .” The paper was written by two kinesiologists or biomechanists in the United States: Nicole Rendos and Christopher Wilburn . In their paper, which was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Dev...

On December 22 of 2025, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a tweet about paternity leave and its purposes. In the tweet, the OECD said: “Paid leave for fathers is expanding, but it remains underused. When fathers take paternal leave, it leads to more equal caregiving, higher workforce participation among mothers, and greater gender equality at work.” Simila...

On the same day that United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would no longer fund United Nations (UN) Women and several other UN entities, Foreign Affairs published an article by Saskia Brechenmacher , titled “ How to Save the Fight for Women’s Rights: The Backlash Against Democracy Calls for New Strategies .” Brechenmacher, who is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowm...

Many readers of The Nuzzo Letter have probably heard of academic peer review, but few are likely to have ever participated in the process or have viewed it from the inside. Here, my aim is to show readers what a journal’s submission portal looks like and explain how authors are often left in the dark regarding the status of their paper submissions. Below, I have posted a screenshot of a submission...

United Nations (UN) Women is the entity within the UN that is said to be dedicated to “gender equality” and the empowerment of women. However, many problems exist with UN Women. Fundamental to these problems is UN Women’s ideological bias, which stems from an adherence to intersectional feminist philosophy . This adherence has led UN Women to continuously push feminist propaganda at taxpayer expen...

STEM and Women The seemingly never-ending campaign to recruit more women into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) continues in Australia. On November 26, 2025, the federal government’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources announced that it would invest another $9.77 million into the Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship program . According to the Department, the program...

On July 10, 2025, the Pew Research Center published results from its poll of 5,085 American men and women titled, “ Americans’ Views on Who Influences Health Policy and Which Health Issues to Prioritize .” In one part of the poll, participants were presented with a list of eight health issues and asked to indicate which issues they believe are a “major problem,” “minor problem,” or “not a problem...

The United States (U.S.) Office of Research on Women’s Health was created within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1990. Organizationally, the Office is positioned within the Office of the Director of the NIH. The original goals of the Office of Research on Women’s Health were: “(1) to strengthen, develop, and increase research into diseases, disorders, and conditions that are unique to,...

On May 31, 2024, I published an essay titled, “ History Didn’t Start at Title IX .” In the essay, I challenged the common assumption that women were historically excluded from early research about physical exercise. I explained that a reasonable degree of female participation can be expected in early physical exercise research because much early research on exercise would have been conducted in th...

Just when you thought the unrelenting attacks on men from academia could not get any worse, they have. In the journal Psychology of Men & Masculinities , the concept “mankeeping” was recently introduced by Angelica Ferrara and Dylan Vergara of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. The title of their paper was, “ Theorizing Mankeeping: The Male Friendship Recession and W...

In September of 2023, actor Kevin Sorbo, famous for his starring role in the 1990s television show “Hercules,” wrote an article for Fox News titled, “ Let’s make Hollywood manly again .” In his article, Sorbo argued that modern Hollywood poorly portrays men and masculinity and thus does not give boys positive role models to look up to. In addition to critiquing Hollywood for frequently portraying...

“This is feminist economic policy in action.” Chrystia Freeland, Canadian Deputy PM, Minister of Finance ( Budget 2022 ) Investigations into the way that government’s allocate money into health research is important, because taxpayers should know how their money is being used and if that use aligns with broader societal interest and medical need. At The Nuzzo Letter, I have previously shown that s...

On Tuesday, March 25th, the Australian Labor Party handed down the country’s federal budget for the 2025-26 financial year. Men’s health was not part of the budget. However, women’s health received its usual smorgasbord of government goodies, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers stating that women's health is a “ national priority ." According to government documents and Nine News , $793 million has been b...

(*Don’t forget to scroll to the end to see more interesting photographs!) Today, there exists much concern about women’s representation as participants in exercise research. I have covered this topic in essays such as “ History Didn’t Start at Title IX ,” “ Men: The Martyrs of Medicine ,” and “ Is There a Bias Against Women in Research? ” To the extent that women have been less frequent participan...

Recently, in a piece titled, Men Putting the Brakes on Exercise Science Degrees , I explained the results from my research on numbers of exercise physiology degrees earned in the United States (U.S.). For the research, I collated data on degrees earned in exercise science since 2002. I presented the data in a sex-segregated way such that separate trend lines are shown for male and female degree ea...

A significant amount of data on sex differences exists. Over several decades of research on human psychology and physiology, thousands of studies have been conducted regarding men’s and women’s unique and overlapping preferences, behaviors, and abilities. Moreover, in recent years, government agencies and academic journals have advised that data, when acquired in studies that include both male and...

In December of last year, I wrote a paper titled, “ Exercise physiology degrees in the United States: an update on secular trends .” The paper, which is an update of my previous analysis from 2020, was published in the journal Advances in Physiology Education . Advances in Physiology Education is the education journal associated with American Physiological Society. The reason I examined the number...

Curtin University is one of 42 universities in Australia. It is a public university located in Perth – the city where I reside. Total student enrolment at Curtin University is approximately 60,000. Earlier this year, Curtin University advertised a job titled STEM Outreach Officer. According to the job advertisement: “The Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University is excited to be expa...