Journalist Lisa Britton is a friend and colleague of Michael Gurian and the Gurian Institute. She is a woman advocating for girls and women and boys and men. Working in the middle ground where polls show most Americans to be on these issues, she calls attention to the needs of both sexes. In this piece, Lisa explores how it is that a leading advocate for women’s health could argue …

On September 18, I attended the Virginia Blueprint: Strategies for Boys and Men Conference at the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond. The gathering brought together policymakers, researchers, educators, community leaders and practitioners to discuss the challenges facing boys and men—and, more importantly, what we can do about them. The “what we can do” is the subject of this article. Six to Seven Hours That Matter: The Classroom’s Place in the …

September is Suicide Prevention Month. Someone in your community will have taken their own lives or attempted it. With tens of thousands suicides every year in the U.S., we are a nation in a mental health crisis that might not be noticeable for some people until a suicide occurs. To begin today’s article from the Child Mind Institute on this issue, Molly Hagan notes that we must be willing to …

In anticipation of Father’s Day, we wanted to feature this important blog post from Evie Magazine. This magazine provides fascinating work mainly in women’s issues and relationships but is also very male positive. We hope you’ll register now for our GI Summer Training Institute. It is virtual and available not just on the days-of but for weeks afterward via recording. Please see https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2026/. Now here’s more from Evie Recent decades …