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The evidence
- The Archive: men's statistics, every cell sourced
- The register: every claim and its source
- The gap, in one picture
- The machinery: markers, outcomes and parity, live
- Why fathers matter
- Male suicide
- Family law and Article 8
- Boys and education
- Violence against men and boys
- The pushback, documented
- The research agenda
The ask
The world counts what it intends, not what happens. This is the machine that does it, drawn with its receipts.
One journey completes. The other stops at station two, and the UN's own record has recognised the gap since 2004.
UN for Men Too · article
The counting machine.
The world counts what it intends, not what happens. Drawn as the machine it is, every step with its receipt. Six stations, one rule, two columns, and the field that was never built.
The picture version of a research paper. Nothing here asks for less for women and girls: the machine you are about to watch work for them is real, funded and rightly so, and its results are part of the evidence that the model works. Watch it run, or read it. Every step carries its source, and the paper, with every figure verified against its primary and a public correction log behind it, is linked at the end.
The machine, run twice
Press play. One concern travels the six stations twice: once where every station answers, once where the journey ends at station two.
Six stations, two journeys
Every beat carries the receipt this project holds. The first journey is the model working, and it is conceded in full. The second is the same machine, asked about the other column.
Violence against women, measured and answered
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The finding exists and is real: about 1 in 3 women, around 840 million, have experienced partner or sexual violence.
WHO, violence against women prevalence estimates, 2023 edition
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The finding has an owner: UN Women, established by the General Assembly.
A/RES/64/289, 2010
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The owner has an indicator set: Sustainable Development Goal 5, with custodian agencies reporting country by country.
UN SDG indicator framework, Goal 5
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The indicator has money: USD 594.4 million in contributions in 2024, from 177 funding partners.
UN Women Highlights 2024 to 2025
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The money is reported annually to the General Assembly.
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An executive board of member states answers for the report. The loop closes, and the next finding lands in a machine that is already running.
Boys in detention, the same machine
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The finding exists and is the UN's own: 94 per cent of detained children in the administration of justice are boys, and the UN's study wrote the heading Discrimination against Boys.
A/74/136 para 35; Global Study, p. 256
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No body owns it. No UN entity dedicated to men and boys exists.
UN system directory, checked August 2026
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No indicator set exists, because there is no owner to define one.
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No budget line exists, because there is no indicator to fund.
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Nothing is reported annually, because there is no budget to report.
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Nobody answers, because there is nothing to answer for. The finding lands back at station one, and repeats.
The first station is never the weak one. The findings exist, year after year, in the institutions' own documents. It is station two that stands empty, and everything after it is empty because of that.
The rule the ledger runs on
None of this requires a villain. It requires one accounting rule, printed in the system's own handbook.
The marker cannot and does not intend to measure the outcome or impact of a programme or project.
Policy marker data are descriptive rather than quantitative.
An accounting system built on stated purpose has one specific blind spot: it cannot see a population about which no purpose is ever stated. What follows is that blind spot, measured.
The class that is nearly empty
Where the ledger cannot answer, records can be read one at a time. This project read them.
The fifty dollars is printed exactly because readers assume a missing million. It is one activity in a voluntary registry, and it shows the recorded response in that register, not the totality of world effort; the raw record is held and checked field by field.
The silence, counted against a baseline
Text can be counted under rules fixed in advance. The finding is never the skew; it is the multiple of the sector's own baseline.
Girls-only against boys-only publications, same census, same rules
Preregistered census, full corpus lists published. Two institutions with no sex-specific mandate replicate a sector baseline of four-to-five to one; UN Women sits sixteen to nineteen times above it. The multiple is the finding, and the baseline itself is a second one.
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UN Women digital library (320 against 4)80:1
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World Bank, no sex mandate (70 against 14)5:1
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WHO, no sex mandate (55 against 13)4.23:1
The guidance that governs boys, counted
- Words in the UN's two child-justice general comments, GC10 and GC24: 24,043
- Occurrences of the word boys in them: 0
- Share of detained children who are boys, by the UN's own study: 94%
- Times the 804-page study says discrimination against boys: 4
- Times the General Assembly summary of it says the same: 0
Sources: CRC General Comments 10 (2007) and 24 (2019), counted with a control word; A/74/136 para 35; UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, pp. 256 to 259, both documents held, diff published.
The money loop, published at both ends and joined at neither
The funding side of the machine runs on the same accounting rule, applied to institutions instead of people.
The pooled hop: published at both ends, joined at neither
Each moving stream is a published ledger. The still, dashed one is the join that no table anywhere records.
No motive is claimed and none is needed: origin attribution is not published, so a state's own budget line understates its support for any pooled-funded entity by an unknowable share, and no equivalent destination exists on the men's side for such flows to reach. For EU states it applies twice: the European Commission gave UN Women USD 49.5 million in 2025, second only to the pooled funds and ahead of every member state, attributed to the Commission and not to its funding states.
Every figure on this page also stands in the project's public register with its source URL and read date, and in the paper below with its verification trail.
What would fix it, and where the full argument lives
The ask is not a slogan. It is five instruments, each with a template that already exists on the other side of the ledger.
The second column, as instruments
- A beneficiary dimension in aid reporting, so counting can occur at all: the template is the marker system's own handbook
- An indicator set with a custodian, so countries report: the template is SDG 5
- A budget line, so the work survives its founder: the template is every funded entity above
- An annual report and a body that reads it: the template is the General Assembly cycle
- A public register that catches its own errors: already running: this site, 94 dated corrections, one against its own front page
Nothing here proposes taking anything from women and girls. A second column is not a slice of the first.
The full argument, with every figure verified against its primary source, three failed or withdrawn measures published as designed, and a claims table any reader can spot-check row by row, is the research paper this page accompanies: The Missing Column, deposited on Zenodo with a citable DOI and downloadable as a PDF here. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22244231
This page is an assembly of the paper's findings in visual form: no figure appears here that does not stand in the paper and the register with its source.
Every claim can be checked without trusting this site: the register is machine-readable, the corpora are deposited, and the correction log is public, dated, and has cut against our own thesis in print.
There is a UN Women. There is no UN Men. This is the ask, and it takes one tap.
— voices so far · one tap, anonymous, no signup
Questions this article answers
Is this against UN Women?
No. The page's first journey is UN Women's machinery working, conceded in full, and the paper uses its results as evidence the model works. The argument is for a second column in the same ledger.
Where can I check the numbers?
Every figure stands in the paper with its primary source and in the public register with a URL and read date. The paper's appendix is a claims table built for spot-checking: pick any row, open the link, compare.
Who wrote this?
Mikal Steen Monslaup, independently. The project began with a first deposit together with Manderaadet and MannsForum; that lineage and interest are declared in the paper, and no organisation reviewed or approved it.
What would change this page
One source for an instrument we missed, and the row enters with thanks. One error found, and it is corrected dated, in public, like the ninety-four before it. Input: contact@unformentoo.org.
Source notes and accuracy flags
This section is part of the article, not an appendix to it. It records where each figure came from, what was checked, and every place where the honest version of a claim is weaker than the version that would have read better.
Source notes
- Every figure on this page stands in the research paper The Missing Column with its full source citation and verification trail, and in the public register (facts.json) or a published research file with URL and read date.
- The six-station machinery language and the two-journey enactment follow the site's standing pages; the women-in-prison precedent for a working chain is documented in the article on instruments that oblige.
Every figure in this article also appears in the register, with its exact value and primary source, and any correction to it will appear in the corrections log with the date it was made.
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