Advantages, opportunities, rights and power that males are given in society by virtue of their sex. These privileges are not available to women and are often invisible to men.
Published in Chapter:
Gender Transformative Change With Men: Lessons From Two Decades of Field Interventions in India
Abhijit Das (Centre for Health and Social Justice, India), Satish Kumar Singh (Centre for Health and Social Justice, India), Rimjhim Jain (Centre for Health and Social Justice, India), and Sana Contractor (Centre for Health and Social Justice, India)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch026
Abstract
Traditionally, the approach to address gender equality has been to empower women through education, collective organising, legal remedies, electoral participation, and institutional engagement. Empowerment of women undoubtedly increases women's awareness of their rights and their ability to confront discrimination and violence; however, engagement with men can make this process collaborative and address men's accountability towards advancing gender justice. This chapter describes the Centre for Health and Social Justice's efforts to engage men within a gender-transformative framework, in different domains of gender equality such as advancing sexual and reproductive rights, eliminating gender-based violence, addressing men's responsibility in care work, and supporting women's leadership in governance.