The article discusses various reports published within the issue including one by Chris Forth, Romit Dasgupta, and Michael Meuser on masculinities as a link of academic reflection and public concern, one by Akosua Adomako Ampofo, and Michael P. K. Okyerefo, and Michael Pervarah on biological paternity among men in Ghana, and one by Radhika Chopra on househusband figure in India.