Commentary There’s been an exciting outcome to a seven-year battle against an Australian university in Victoria, who torpedoed a man’s PhD. This tenacious man—I’ll call him “Philip”—has just achieved a confidential settlement, which is a tribute to his fighting spirit but also a lesson to us all about the importance of fighting back against anti-male prejudice. All was looking good in March 2014 when Philip submitted his PhD on workplace male age discrimination. It was a solid piece of work, nothing remotely inflammatory and included information about discrimination against both older women as well as men. Phillip was a mature student who had already spent years teaching in Japan and in Australian universities prior to spending 7 1/2 years doing the PhD research part-time. After all that hard work, he thought it would be smooth sailing. But then the trouble started. Somehow his research school failed to submit the thesis …