When children understand what a healthy relationship is, they are less likely to accept dating violence and are more likely to have positive
attitudes toward gender equality, according to a recent study.
The approach, announced Tuesday by Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York, enlists more than 20 partners from the corporate and nonprofit worlds to address the gaps in women's economic progress, which were laid out in the No Ceilings Full Participation Report last year, and to
work toward the gender equality targets of the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals.
On Sunday, she announced the launch of the United Nations» HeForShe campaign, which aims to get men involved in the global
movement toward gender equality.
«Further, the findings provide an important counterpoint to claims that progress
toward gender equality in heterosexual relationships has stalled.»
What we may actually be witnessing isn't the wildly shifting attitudes
toward gender equality of millennials, whose preferences and leanings remain a largely inscrutable generational question, but just so much statistical noise.
Experiences in conflict and post-conflict societies also provide powerful examples of how gender disparities harm men and progress
toward gender equality benefits them.
I wonder when we will arrive; whenever I raise this issue in conversation, I sense a weariness among those who have been working
toward gender equality for decades, and concurrently, a lack of engagement with the cause among those more recently called to the Bar.
The selection of two traditionally male and female colors in muted, complementary tones signifies a «more unilateral approach to color [that] is coinciding with societal
movements toward gender equality and fluidity,» she says.
There is no doubt that involving men in
efforts toward gender equality has the potential to greatly enhance the impact and reach of this work, but whether it does so or not will depend on the play of political and cultural forces.
It is from this premise that Promundo, an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) working
toward gender equality and the promotion of healthy masculinities, co-founded the MenCare global fatherhood campaign in 2011.