I don't research men!

In order to arrive at the conclusion that fathers are perfectly happy with the current custody and access arrangements, Nicole Marcil-Gratton [and] Céline Le Bourdais, in their paper presented to the Child Support Team, Department of Justice Canada in 1999 and called "Custody, Access and Child Support: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth", assert on page 27 that"

[T]he present data will assist us in beginning to sketch a profile of fathers separated from their children.

The survey questionnaire does not include any relevant questions. Much of the information about fathers was gleaned from mothers.(emphasis mine)

The same "finding" was rediscovered by the same authors a year later, with additional input by Heather Juby, in their revamped treatise and now called: "Keeping Contact with Children: Assessing the Father/Child Post-Separation Relationship from the Male Perspective" which, it goes without saying, is totally devoid of "male perspective". What is glaringly missing is the question about mothers as gatekeepers and perjurers." Eeva Sodhi

Carmen Medina a CIA analyst, in her TED talk "Survival heuristics, and how to avoid intelligence traps" refers to the "Street Light Effect" "where we as analysts(researchers) treat the information that is in front of us, the streetlight, and act as if it accurately represents reality." She then realises that she did not know how accurately the information that she received actually represent reality.

I did a word search of The Conversation a website where academics and researchers able to publish articles based on their areas of research.

• The word Misogyny showed up in 249 titles.
• The word Misandry showed up Once.
• The concept of Toxic Masculinity had 232 hits
• The concept of Toxic Femininity had zero hits.

Expanding the definition to Horizontal Violence/Lateral Violence that is an enormous problem in the field of Nursing there were only 3 published articles, yet in the nursing literature there are thousands of references to Horizontal violence or bullying within the workplace. Researchers found that 85% of nurses have experience work place bullying from their own gender

What is interesting is that Professor Janice Fiamengo mentioned that when she was an undergraduate student she was taught to view the literature she was studying, through a feminist lens. The lens, of how women were struggling and how men are being privileged. It seems obvious the current crop of gendered-based research strongly reflects the bias of this gendered lens. The feminist lens is an example of Tribalism and how other ideas or information when seen through that lens is seen as the enemy that needs to be shot down.

How much of gendered academic research is actually Machiavellianism? Especially when it is found that only one third of published psychology research is reliable?