Since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, there have been tremendous advances in the rights and well-being of women and girls. Progress has been made in the areas of health, education, political participation and income. Yet, much remains to be done to achieve equality between women and men. As envisioned in the Beijing Platform for Action, one critical piece for advancing the gender equality agenda is engaging men and boys.
This discussion paper seeks to create dialogue about moving forward with efforts that actively engage men and boys in challenging power dynamics in their own lives as well as in their communities and societies. The paper also sets forth several recommendations for action, including shifting of the normative understanding of men’s role within the broader agenda for gender equality, building and maintaining alliances between men’s work for gender equality and the women’s rights fields and other social justice movements, taking work with men from the programme and project levels into policies and institutions, and developing, implementing and monitoring policies to engage men in gender equality and building state capacity to implement them.
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WOMEN & POVERTY
Women bear a disproportionate burden of the world’s poverty. According to some estimates, women represent 70 percent of the world’s poor. Statistics indicate that women are more likely than men to be poor and at risk of hunger because of the systematic discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets. Poverty implications are widespread for women, leaving many without even basic rights such as access to clean drinking water, sanitation, medical care and decent employment. Being poor can also mean women have little protection from violence and have no role in decision making.
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By Claire Cain Miller - May 28, 2015
The biggest obstacle to women in joining the highest ranks of the business world is a lack of family-friendly policies. That, at least, has been the conventional wisdom in recent years, and it has been
But some researchers are now arguing that the real problem is not the lack of family-friendly policies for mothers, but the surge in hours worked by both women and men. And companies are not likely to want to adopt the obvious solution.
The pressure of a round-the-clock work culture — in which people are expected to answer emails at 11 p.m. and take cellphone calls on Sunday morning — is particularly acute in highly skilled, highly paid professional services jobs like law, finance, consulting and accounting.
