Men and Gender Equality: An Evolving Union

This is a really interesting preliminary finding on men's attitudes about gender roles across 6 countries.

Some of the survey findings:

• Younger and more educated men adhered less to restrictive social norms around manhood and demonstrated behavior that upheld women as their equals.
• Men who felt stress or depression about work or income harbored more suicidal thoughts and reported more use of violence against women. This occurred at a statistically significant level in four of the countries studied.
• While women continue to do more child care work and domestic activities, unemployed men and younger men are participating more than is commonly acknowledged.
• In Brazil, Chile, Croatia and Mexico, men with higher education levels were more likely to accompany their partner to prenatal visits.
• Women with partners who share in domestic duties reported that they are more sexually satisfied.
• Rwandan and Indian men showed the most inequitable attitudes. For instance, 61 percent of men in Rwanda and more than 80 percent of men in India agreed that changing diapers and feeding children are the mother's responsibility.
• In all six countries, men reported more use of violence against their intimate partners if they experienced violence in their childhood, are stressed at work, abuse alcohol and view women as subservient to them.

http://www.icrw.org/media/news/men-and-gender-equality-evolving-union