Countries: South Korea
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

“In Korea’s patriarchal society — in which women are generally expected to defer to their fathers" (para 2).

Countries: India
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2, ATFPA-PRACTICE-3

"The representation gap is one stark example of the deep inequalities still facing women in India, the world's most populous nation, where equality advocates say a deeply entrenched patriarchy has defied the rapid pace of economic development and modernisation" (para 8).

Countries: China
Variables: WAM-PRACTICE-1, ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"[There are] deeply negative images of single mothers often found in Chinese film, television and literature that reflect long-held patriarchal beliefs about heteronormative family structures" (para 12).

Countries: Benin
Variables: DLB-DATA-1, ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

“The spread of conflict in the Sahel region depends on the recruitment of disaffected men who have few economic options. Women having livelihoods and income is an important alternative for husbands or male family members who might be otherwise be drawn to groups such as the al-Qaida-affiliated Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen” (4). “ ‘Women are expected to work and earn money,’ says [Olyvia] Fadeyi, [mycologist teaching women to harness economic value of mushrooms]. ‘But what they earn from farming is not enough, and the money they do earn they are expected to give to their husbands’ ” (7). “Albertine Doussoumon and her mother, Rosaline Chabi, are two of 180...more

Countries: Sierra Leone
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

“The more the child rights bill is stalled, the more it reveals itself as a dilution tactic of pushing against ending FGM – and the more sinister the interplay becomes between girls’ and young women’s rights and the anti-rights agenda. The rhetoric of those who refuse to criminalise FGM simply continues to harden conservative patriarchal norms and underpin far-right ideologies, wrapped in the cloak of tradition. With FGM seen as the precursor to marriage, the threat of child marriage will continue, despite the new law” (4). “Despite decades of campaigning by anti-FGM activists, it remains prevalent – shielded in the belief that to become a woman and be fit for...more

Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"The third attitude was it is good that man and women are equal in marriage, but by rule it is better than man should have the last word. This is a statement which checks attitudes towards traditionally understood authority in family. According to the data, we can state that majority of men agree with this statement (50.9%), in comparison with women (24.5%). Women show disagreement with this attitude in 54.4% cases, and men in 21.7% cases (Table 3). When it is about this attitude, women show determination in nonacceptance of marriage inequality, while only one fifth of men managed to abandon this attitude. If we take into consideration the answers...more

Countries: Ukraine
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

" 'Women’s leadership and their role in decision-making has increased at the family level and partially at the community level, with women reporting that they participate on equal terms in family decisions in response to the crisis,' the [U.N.] report said" (7).

Countries: Mauritania
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1, ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

“Women have participated in trade, influenced politics, made decisions for their families, shaped their marriages, and contributed to religious scholarship. Mauritanian women have also exercised significant power as compared to some of their counterparts elsewhere in the Muslim world, being able to initiate divorce, speak publicly, and act as heads of household. Despite such influence, their gender has also disadvantaged them, making it difficult to access many of the opportunities that are available to men” (para 1). “In their everyday lives, many women remain knowledgeable about the Qur’an and its teachings and use these to justify various behaviors. For example, female entrepreneurs often emphasize that they control their own incomes...more

Countries: Cote D'Ivoire
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"'I even have great-grandchildren – imagine becoming a mother three times over. First, you have your own children, then when you expect your children to look after you, they have children and you become a grandmother who is left with all the duties the mother would normally take care of, and if that isn’t enough, I am now doing it all over again for my great-grandchildren – mothering them. She says the same thing many of the grandmothers say: My retirement will come the day I’m buried'"(para 10-12). This quote shows how easy it is for parents to make the decision to abandon thier children and how small emphasis is...more

Countries: Botswana
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"The GBV Indicators Study [of 2012] indicated that 83% of women and 82% of men respondents agree that men and women should be treated equally. Even though higher proportions of women and men in this study agree to the concept of gender equality, they further contradicted themselves (especially men) in their views on issues that are supposed to reflect this equality. Such views include agreeing that women must obey their husbands; that a wife needs the permission of her husband to pursue paid work; and that a man should have the final say in all family matters. These findings reflect that although gender equality in the public domain is widely...more

Countries: Bahamas
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"[B]y the time they reached high school, students had already learned that the man should be the head of the household, a woman must submit to her husband, and that a woman’s place was in the home" (2). "The attitudes of both the males and female respondents towards gender roles show similar rank orders (see Table 2). The attitudes of both the males and female respondents towards gender roles show similar rank orders (see Table 2). There was more agreement that a man/husband should be the head of the household, and less agreement that a woman’s place is in the home" (5). "While most respondents had learned from faith-based teachings...more

Countries: China
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

" 'The Communist Party aggressively perpetuates traditional gender norms and reduces women to their roles as reproductive tools for the state, dutiful wives, mothers and baby breeders in the home,' Leta Hong Fincher, a Hong Kong-American writer, wrote in the Washington Post. 'The party also is carrying out an unprecedented crackdown on feminist activists because China's all-male rulers seem to think that China's entire security state would collapse were it not for the subjugation of women' " (para 8-9). " 'The gender stereotypes or the historical traditional norms are still there today very much,' Valarie Tan, an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Germany, told Al Jazeera....more

Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"[T]he persistence of deeply entrenched traditional patriarchal attitudes and discriminatory stereotypes [] continue to be a root cause of the denial of full equality to women in the State party" (5). "[P]atriarchal attitudes, impede migrant women from enjoying their rights" (14).

Countries: Cambodia
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"[There is a] persistence of discriminatory stereotypes about the roles and responsibilities of women and men in the family and in society, which are deeply rooted in Cambodian culture and continue to perpetuate gender inequality by normalizing male superiority and promoting women’s passivity and compliance. It is concerned that such gender stereotypes, as reflected in the Chbab Srey and the Chbab Prohh, the traditional codes of conduct for women and men, respectively, legitimize gender-based violence against women" (7). The Cambodian culture contains patriarchal attitudes (MV- coder comment).

Countries: Oman
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"In a country where traditional values are fast changing, statistics from the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs show 67 percent of all divorces were initiated by women last year. For 36-year-old Fatma al-Hammadi, marriage has limited value if the husband controls all aspects of marital life. She walked out of her eight-year marriage in October last year. 'Marriage is supposed to be an equal partnership where both the woman and her husband plan out their lives together. It is not a marriage if the man dictates all the terms in your life and forces you to play by his rules,' Fatma, a banker in a senior position, told Al...more