Gender norms influence the ability of individuals, couples, and families to meet their desired family planning needs. This resource helps health care providers overcome biases and offer quality, gender-sensitive, transformative services to enable all clients to make voluntary and informed decisions about their family planning needs, improving both gender equality and reproductive health outcomes.Read More
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New Interactive Reports on Women’s Economic Empowerment
Two new interactive reports, the "Women's Workplace Equity Index" and "Growing Economies Through Gender Parity," highlight barriers to closing the gender gap in the workforce and how removing these barriers could lead to global economic growth. Read More
Can Big Data Be Used for Evaluation?
A new study conducted by UN Women examines the feasibility of leveraging big data sources, such as Facebook, Twitter, and radio data, to improve the evaluation of gender equality and women's empowerment initiatives. Read More
Intersections of Violence Against Women and Girls With State-Building and Peace-Building
This study explores how programs and policies to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) have been integrated and addressed within post-conflict state-building policy and programming, and how, in conflict-affected countries, VAWG is related to efforts to achieve peace and stability.Read More
Rapid Knowledge, Practices, and Coverage Survey—Gender Module
This module aims to provide program implementers with a better understanding of how gender-based attitudes, norms, roles, and behaviors may affect health-seeking behaviors and health outcomes in the program area.Read More
Manhood 2.0: A Curriculum Promoting a Gender-Equitable Future of Manhood
Equimundo has produced a set of resources that identify steps you can take, directly with young men and in your setting, to realize a feminist future of manhood. These resources include new research on masculinity, guidance on conversations, a curriculum to promote a gender-equitable future of manhood, and more.Read More
