Gary Barker Content Topic Results

The Man Box report examines young men’s attitudes, behaviors, and understandings of manhood.

This report highlights the importance of engaging adolescent boys and young men in sexual and reproductive health and rights and in gender equality.

This paper examines men’s lifetime physical intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration across eight low- and middle-income countries to better understand key risk factors that interventions can target in order to promote gender equality and reduce IPV.

This report presents findings from a six-country study on men’s attitudes and practices as well as women’s opinions and reports of men’s practices. These practices included health practices, parenting, relationship dynamics, sexual behavior, and use of violence.

This review of existing research examines the effectiveness of interventions for preventing boys’ and young men’s use of sexual violence.

The review analyzed data from 58 evaluation studies of interventions with men and boys. Interventions were rated on their gender approach, using the following categories: gender-neutral - programs that distinguish little between the needs of men and women, neither reinforcing nor questioning gender roles; gender-sensitive - programs that recognize the specific needs and realities of men based on the social construction of gender roles; or gender-transformative - approaches that seek to transform gender roles and promote more gender-equitable relationships between men and women.

This article examines the rationale for working with men and boys for gender equality; describes key findings from multi-country studies about the relationship between notions of masculinities and men’s gender-related practices; documents key principles guiding much gender equality work with men and boys; identifies emerging strategies and proposes key next steps to increase the scale, impact, and sustainability of gender transformative work with men and boys.