Journal
MEN AND MASCULINITIES
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 578-599Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X14558240
Keywords
gender equality; men and boys; masculinities; gender-based violence
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
In spite of tremendous progress toward including gender equality as a global goalincluded in numerous UN conventions and the Millennium Development Goalsmuch progress remains to be made. Men's violence against women remains a pervasive feature of life in every country in the world. Increasing attention is being paid to engaging men and boys to end men's violence. Programs and policies have been successfully piloted by nongovernmental organizations across the world and shown to promote important and positive change in men's gender-related attitudes and practices, including in reducing men's use of violence against women. Since the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, national governments and UN agencies have steadily adopted and implemented policies and community-based interventions intended to change social norms about gender and masculinities. As cross-pollination happens across countries and regions, work with men and boys for gender equality has become more complex, ambitious, and visible, generating important synergies and successes, and some resistance. This article examines the rationale for that work; describes key findings from multicountry studies about the relationship between notions of masculinities and men's gender-related practices; documents key principles guiding much gender equality work with men and boys; identifies emerging strategies and proposes key next steps to increase the scale, impact, and sustainability of gender transformative work with men and boys.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available