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Why? To Spend money well and achieve fair outcomes
What? Identify discrimination Understand how sex differences and gendered power relations affect access to rightsKey questions:
- Do women and men have any different needs when it comes to rights in this context? Do they have the same access to their rights? Do they have the same opportunities to enjoy those rights?
- Does the work that you do affect women and men equally? Do you discriminate in your work without realising it? How? Do you work to enhance gender equality?
When? Throughout our work: from designing our initiatives to evaluating them. In protection and
promotion work. Within our own human resource strategies.
Who? All of us!
Gender: Constructed over time, place and by peopleSex: Biological differences, usually fixed
The Two Pronged/ Twin Track Approach
Gender Equality
Gender Mainstreaming Targeted action: Empowerment and Equality
Costs and Benefits
Dominant Masculinity
Costs to Boys and
Men
Costs to Girls and Women
Gender Equality
Benefits to Boys
and Men
Benefits to Girls
and Women
Benefits to Women and Girls
Costs to either sex?
In Small Groups
• Record as many benefits or costs as you can.• Consider different levels: Individuals,
Relationships, Community, Society• Consider different contexts: Public and private
life- family, education, leadership, employment, violence, politics etc.
Costs of Dominant Masculinity to Boys and Men
COSTS for boys and men
Compulsory military service
Women and girls we care about are victims
of violence
Emotional costs (no crying); bullying by
other men if not seen to conform
Limited involvement in
family life
Pressure to succeed, to
provide
More behaviour disorders
More school expulsionsPressure to
make decisions alone
More prison time
More likely to take their own
lives
Better pay, better jobs
Benefits of Dominant Masculinity to Boys and Men
Benefits of Dominant Masculinity to Women and Girls
BENEFITS for Girls and Women
Physical Protection
by men against other men
Economic Protection during pregnancy and child rearing
High status for those conforming
to gender roles
Availability of jobs that
conform to roles
Possibility of flexible working to conform
to norms
Costs of Dominant Masculinity to Girls and Women
Benefits of Gender Equality for Girls and Women
Benefits of Gender Equality for Boys and Men
Key Learning Points• Dominant masculinity has costs and benefits
for men and boys, as well as for women and girls.
• Understanding these costs and benefits is useful for strategising and influencing
• Gender equality benefits everyone and hurts no one!