Good Will Toward Men: Women Talk Candidly About the Balance of Power Between the Sexes - Softcover

First published in 1994, this is a series of interviews with twenty-two truly progressive women who talk about fairness, social justice and respect between men and women as a two-way street. Have things changed for the better since then? You decide.

When Jack Kammer was a young boy he loved babies. But he often heard the left-handed “compliment” that paralleled the one heard by girls who were good at sports (or math), namely “You’re really good at sports (or math)... for a girl.” What Jack heard was “You’re really good with babies... for a boy.” He understood intuitively that the real message was that boys weren’t supposed to be good with babies, that babies were squarely in female territory. But Jack didn’t let that stop him. And he never forgot that first brush with sexism. From 1983 to 1989, Jack produced and hosted a weekly talk radio show in Baltimore called “In a Man’s Shoes” to examine gender issues from a male point of view. In 2005, more convinced than ever of bringing a progressive male perspective to the study of social issues, Jack left his “day job” as an IT analyst and trainer in Washington DC and went back to school in a dual-Masters MSW/MBA program at the University of Maryland. After graduation he worked for a year as a Correctional Officer (AKA “jail guard”) at the Baltimore City Detention Center, and then another year as a Parole & Probation agent in central Baltimore. (He says he wanted to focus not on the men in the Fortune 500, but on those in the Misfortune 5,000,000.) He then served for a year as a trainer and consultant for the National Fatherhood Initiative. Jack was a presenter at the two National Conferences on Social Work With and For Men in 2008 and 2009. He has presented CEU workshops on issues related to men and gender at the NASW-New Mexico Annual Conference in 2010, the NASW-North Carolina Annual Conference in 2011 and the Annual Conference on Healthy Attachments in West Virginia in 2013. In 2012 Jack received the Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from his social work alma mater. In 2013 he started building Working Well With Men (workingwellwithmen.com), a social enterprise helping social work agencies, schools, organizations and workers candidly address the customs, practices and beliefs that hinder men from giving and getting all the love they can. Also in 2013, Jack was married for the first time. He is happily the husband of Claire Fraser, a prominent genome scientist.