• Cavan Images/Alamy Cavan Images/Alamy International Women’s Day, held annually on 8 March, is a stalwart of what we might call the “awareness calendar” - the loose collection of days, weeks and months dedicated to informing the public about different issues. • It’s unfortunate that some men’s response to IWD is to ask “when is International Men’s Day then?”, especially when the answer is that it already exists, on 19 November, and is designed to highlight issues facing men, such as abuse, homelessness, suicide and violence. • Putting the bad-faith questioning of IWD aside, the relative lack of awareness of the men’s day versus the women’s illustrates how men’smental healthremains a particularly hard nut to crack. • It is true that recent decades have seen a vast improvement in our attitudes towards mental health in general. • But men still struggle to talk about their problems - while statistics vary, women are far more likely to be open about their mental health. • Part of the reason for this is that we are less good at acknowledgingmale mental health conditions.

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  • International Women’s Day, held annually on 8 March, is a stalwart of what we might call the “awareness calendar” - the loose collection of days, weeks and months dedicated to informing the public about different issues. It’s unfortunate that some men’s response to IWD is to ask “when is International Men’s Day then?”, especially when the answer is that it already exists, on 19 November, and is designed to highlight issues facing men, such as abuse, homelessness, suicide and violence. Putting the bad-faith questioning of IWD aside, the relative lack of awareness of the men’s day versus the wom

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