The Daily Star - November 25, 2013
THE issue of gender inequality and violence against women and girls
(VAWG) in Bangladesh is mainly placed on the public agenda by women and
women-focused organisations only. Men and boys still remain passive
participants by being the target group of workshops, posters, leaflets
telling them to ‘Stop Violence.’ This approach of men’s participation in
the issues of gender inequality and VAWG is an effective short term
solution for awareness building and information dissemination. But we do
realise that the issue of VAWG is rooted in the unequal position of
women in the gender order of the society. That is why a sustainable
change in the society requires the interventions to go beyond individual
and interpersonal levels and address the institutional and structural
levels of the society. This needs active engagement of men and boys.
Men’s capacity should be utilised for changing the social practices that
reproduce the systematic dominance of men over women. Active engagement
proposes that men and boys.
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