Social Institutions and Gender Index Man Enough? Measuring Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Empowerment

Download or read book Social Institutions and Gender Index Man Enough? Measuring Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Empowerment written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculinities can either support or hinder women’s empowerment and greater gender equality. However, a lack of consistent and comparable data hinders efforts to understand and assess harmful, restrictive masculinities. This report identifies and describes ten norms of restrictive masculinities to be urgently addressed within the political, economic and private spheres.