The goal of the survey “Men and Gender Relations in Georgia” is to gather data on men’s attitudes towards gender equality; and to describe their experience of and engagement in household activities and in such social practices, which involve residing together and sharing household responsibilities with a spouse or partner. The survey also gathered data from women in order to make a comparison of the opinions expressed by both genders.

A Collaborative Review of Evidence on Men and Boys in Social Change and Gender Equality. Designed to help answer the question, ‘what works best when it comes to engaging men and boys for gender equality?’, this evidence review critically assesses trends and shifts in related social norms and structures over the past 20 years, successful policies and programmes and implications for best practice, and future directions for promoting men’s and boys’ support for gender equality across a variety of priority thematic areas.

A discussion paper on engaging men in gender equality from Beijing 1995-2015 by MenEngage Alliance in collaboration with UN Women and with support of UNFPA.

This advocacy brief explores the importance of changing social norms related to men’s ideas and behaviors and examines several questions: Can men support gender equality and learn to live gender-equitable lives? Can men transform the ideas and practices they associate with manhood? Can the spheres where men and boys are socialized and often learn inequitable norms – home, school, work, sports, religion, the media, and others – be changed?

This brief considers responses to these questions in three parts:

Unpaid care work is often considered a secondary issue, but it’s one of the key drivers of women’s inequality. In Eastern Europe it is also an element in continuing low fertility as the prospect of having to shoulder most of the unpaid care forces women to choose between having children and having a career.

Gender-biased sex selection has emerged since the early 1990s as a widespread practice in parts of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region and now constitutes a significant challenge to the countries affected. The preference of many parents for sons, combined with the use of modern technologies and declining fertility, has skewed the normal ratio between male and female births in several countries, mostly in the South Caucasus and parts of South-East Europe.

A critical review of best practice by Fiona McAllister and Adrienne Burgess of the Fatherhood Institute, in association with Jane Kato and Gary Barker of Promundo. 

The Purpose of Fatherhood: Programmes and Policies is to review policies and programmes that promote or facilitate the involvement of fathers and father-figures from the pre-natal period through the first eight years of their children's lives; and to establish evidence of these programmes' potential to impact family violence, child abuse or children's health or learning outcomes. 

Despite some progress in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), levels of VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) remain high throughout the region. As the graph in this issue brief shows, a large proportion of women and girls experience various forms of violence. This Issue brief explores the impact of this violence, why so many women and girls in the EECA region are affected, and why figures such as those below represent only a small proportion of the actual victims and survivors of VAWG.