Am I the only one who think that this country badly needs a masculinist lobby?

Men face descrimination in health care provision, car insurance, parental leave, child custody, ect. ect.

EG
Lung cancer accounted for one in four cancer deaths in men, one in five overall.
Urban populations had higher rates of cancer: 10% for females, 15% for males.
There is a 1-in-3 chance of developing cancer by age 74; 1 in 4 if skin cancer is excluded.
Age-standardised cancer incidence rates were 30% higher in men than in women.
Age-standardised cancer mortality rates were almost 50% higher in men than women.
Females had a 1-in-8 chance, males a 1-in-6 chance of dying of cancer by age 74.
Breast cancer accounted for one in five cancer deaths in women.
Why no HSE rush to roll out men's health programs?
Maybe this will shead some light;
http://www.whc.ie/about/index.html

Yes it's a government funded lobby group to encourage the government to spend more of the limited health buget on the healthier, longer living sex to the inevitable detriment of the other. With no counter point equvilant group to balance the argument.

The "pay gap" is at 9% (Down from 20% in 1995) according to the EU, the ICTU criticised the government for having no plan to close this gap, but women work 30% (a signifigant amount) fewer hours than men, ie more part time work and since part time jobs on the average pay less than full time it is fair to say that since we regard 4% unemployment as "full employment" hence 9% gap in the hourly rate is not be unexpected. Anacdotally high skilled jobs for men and women tend to be the same but semi-skilled; tendancy for men to go into less "steady" jobs with less security such as builder's labourer which pay more than say shop assistant but the latter is more secure the builder's labourer may earn the same in the long term but his periods of unemployment are not taken into account for such satistics.

Other sources;

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhkfsnojeyoj/rss2/
http://www.ncri.ie/pubs/report-joint-1996.shtml

P.S. I have nothing at all against the provision of support to any sector society that requires it and I belive that women's health and other issues are of huge importance to society as a whole and more than deserve to fully resourced and advocated, however in the absence of similar advocacy for the rest of society the current descriminatory situation results and to see one section of society advantaged over another is ultimately in the interst of no one.