Employee resource groups dedicated to specific subsets of workers, such as those often offered for women, veterans or LGBTQ employees, have been a mainstay in the corporate world for years. But the idea of a workplace affinity group specifically for men can elicit an instant eye roll. “Isn’t the whole company a men’s group?” is one frequent response. After all, men remain overrepresented in leadership, making up about 90% of big company chief executive officers and controlling more than two-thirds of C-suite jobs in the US. The sentiment is that men “don’t necessarily need to commiserate, because they’re the ones getting promoted, they’re the ones holding all the cards,” says Chris McCormick, who previously led diversity programs at companies including Bank of America Corp. and Gilead Sciences Inc. and now advises corporations on their human resource practices.