Working with Men and Boys to Promote Gender Equality
Across much of the world, rigid gender norms, and harmful perceptions of what it means to be a man or a woman, encourage men to engage in high risk behaviors, condone violence against women, grant men the power to initiate and dictate the terms of sex, and make it difficult for women to protect themselves […]
Engaging men and boys in efforts to support women’s leadership in peace-building and to end violence against women
This speech by Dean Peacock at the UNESCO Forum focuses on how best to strengthen men’s support for women’s leadership in peace-building, and more generally how to involve men and boys in achieving gender equality and preventing domestic and sexual violence. This is informed based on the work Peacock does at both Sonke Gender Justice […]