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  Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

  Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007

  Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.
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  "Man Hunt Intimacy: Man Clean Bathroom": Women, Sexual Pleasure, Gender Violence and HIV

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Men's contribution - or lack of it - to household tasks and expenditure and the daily burden of running a home is closely linked to sexual dissatisfaction, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. Men seek comfort by having sex with other women, and their wives also turn to other men for sex in order to buy school clothes for their children or food for the daily meal.
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  BRIDGE Bibliography 15: Engaging men in gender equality: positive strategies and approaches: overview and annotated bibliography

  Siyanda, 2006

  In various settings, small numbers of men and boys are changing their attitudes and behaviour towards women - supporting opportunities for women to earn an income outside the home, or speaking out against gender-based violence, for example. What makes this kind of resistance to rigid views of gender possible?
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  Our Bodies, Their Battleground: Gender Based Violence in Conflict Zones

  2004

  An estimated half a million women were raped during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and 50 percent of all women in Sierra Leone were subjected to sexual violence, including rape, torture and sexual slavery during the conflict. In Liberia, an estimated 40 percent of all girls and women have fallen victim to abuse.
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  Transforming our Initiatives for Gender Equality by Addressing and Involving Men and Boys: a Framework for Analysis and Action

  2004

  Leaving out boys and men from gender and development work is a recipe for failure. But how can we effectively involve men in practice? This chapter discusses a framework for addressing and involving men in gender equality initiatives, drawing on examples from the White Ribbon Campaign, a campaign that aims to engage men and boys in the struggle to end men's violence against women.
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  Working with Men and Boys to Promote Gender Equality and to End Violence Against Boys and Girls

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Interventions that treat men as the villains and women as the victims have not taken us far. Not all masculinities (or ways of being a man) are harmful to men, women and children.
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  Ending Gender-Based Violence: A Call for Global Action to Involve Men

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004

  When men are confronted with the problem of violence against women they often dismiss it with: ?Don't look at me! I don't do that kind of thing!? Yet men's violence is a worldwide problem. Despite this, there are men in many parts of the world who are themselves seeking ways to challenge stereotypical models of masculinity and are seeking to engage other men in reducing gender-based violence.
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  Strategies and Tools for Working with Men and Boys to End Violence Against Girls, Boys, Women and Other Men

  BRIDGE, 2005

  A number of organisations in South and Central Asia have recognised the urgent need to include boys and men in efforts to combat gender-based violence in the region. Yet there have been few opportunities for them to come together to work collectively on this important issue.
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  Constructions of Masculinities and Violence against Women

  2001

  In Bangladesh sexual violence within marriage is often seen as a shameful but tolerated ill. Although anger about violence against women (VAW) is profound among many Bangladeshi women, numerous barriers prevent them from speaking out against gender-based violence.
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  Working with Young Men to Promote Gender Equality: An Experience in Brazil and Latin America

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Traditional beliefs about manhood in Brazil have been shown to directly correlate with unsafe sexual practices and violence against partners. This paper describes the Program H Initiative which was developed in 1999 by Instituto Promundo in Brazil and other collaborating Latin American organisations.

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