'Fight gender inequality by empowering men'

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2011-08-15 02:47

Article here. Excerpt:

'Delivering the Helen Joseph Memorial Lecture at the University of Johannesburg on August 10, Barker spoke on the theme Men and Gender Equality: Between the Urgency and the Confusion. He is the international director of Instituto Promunda, a Brazilian non-governmental organisation that promotes the end of violence against women and children.

In no way does Dr Barker exonerate men who are violent towards women, but he argues that in order to deal with the oppression of women, men must be included in gender equality interventions: the difficulties in their lives need to be addressed, too.

He explains that most men "who have made women's lives hell have themselves had hellish lives".

Barker says that during research on women's rights, men are seldom asked what they think of women's rights. He also argues that men often don't see the benefit of equality with women. Perhaps, suggests Barker, men "might be more supportive of gender equality if they could see something in it for them".'

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... painting men as savage brutes kept in check only by fear of dire consequences should they let loose their evil oppressive ways on weak, vulnerable females, and not a single word re violence against men by women. The one good thing they got right was the poverty men are in all over the world and the focus on giving microloans, etc. to women with no consideration for men.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2011-08-15 20:29