Latest items for DMW-PRACTICE-1
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"[There are] broader questions over the toxic masculinity riddling French society, how the police, courts and society treat rape victims, the use of drugs in rape, and, of course, consent, or the absence of the concept in French law" (23).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"[There are] broader questions over the toxic masculinity riddling French society, how the police, courts and society treat rape victims, the use of drugs in rape, and, of course, consent, or the absence of the concept in French law" (23).
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:46 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"When marriage is presented as an ultimate goal for women, they are compelled to adhere to the feminine norms of beauty" (par. 9).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"When marriage is presented as an ultimate goal for women, they are compelled to adhere to the feminine norms of beauty" (par. 9).
Jan. 17, 2025, 11:50 a.m.
Countries: Cambodia
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"In a 2011 study, the reasons identified by male and female workers for the low rate of union women leaders include that women are more easily intimidated and less educated, which the study understands as itself a product of broader Cambodian culture and unequal access to education" (5).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"In a 2011 study, the reasons identified by male and female workers for the low rate of union women leaders include that women are more easily intimidated and less educated, which the study understands as itself a product of broader Cambodian culture and unequal access to education" (5).
Jan. 16, 2025, 9:45 p.m.
Countries: Peru
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"The National Organization of Indigenous, Andean and Amazonian Women of Peru (ONAMIAP) indicates, for example, that in the consultation process of Lot 195, only 1 woman and 11 men participated; 2 women and 14 men participated in Lot 175, because in some communities women are not classified as community members, or because there is resistance to their effective participation" (6). "Furthermore, they live in contexts of coercion and violence, where sexual autonomy and their choices are limited by the structural position of man's domination and the presence of the forces of order" (6-7).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"The National Organization of Indigenous, Andean and Amazonian Women of Peru (ONAMIAP) indicates, for example, that in the consultation process of Lot 195, only 1 woman and 11 men participated; 2 women and 14 men participated in Lot 175, because in some communities women are not classified as community members, or because there is resistance to their effective participation" (6). "Furthermore, they live in contexts of coercion and violence, where sexual autonomy and their choices are limited by the structural position of man's domination and the presence of the forces of order" (6-7).
Jan. 16, 2025, 11:36 a.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Research from crisis organization Samaritans suggests that men in the UK are more likely than women to commit suicide because due to a gendered stigma surrounding mental health. Reaching out for help is seen as weak or feminine, making men less likely to find support for suicidal thoughts" (para 37).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Research from crisis organization Samaritans suggests that men in the UK are more likely than women to commit suicide because due to a gendered stigma surrounding mental health. Reaching out for help is seen as weak or feminine, making men less likely to find support for suicidal thoughts" (para 37).
Jan. 16, 2025, 11:19 a.m.
Countries: Burma/Myanmar
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"One aspect of that order is the tradition of hpoun, a belief that asserts that men possess greater spiritual power than women. It often keeps women from rising in society" (para 9). "Not all segments of Burmese society see women as inferior to men" (para 11).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"One aspect of that order is the tradition of hpoun, a belief that asserts that men possess greater spiritual power than women. It often keeps women from rising in society" (para 9). "Not all segments of Burmese society see women as inferior to men" (para 11).
Jan. 16, 2025, 10:50 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"The municipal offices for women conduct awareness-raising and training sessions designed to transform sociocultural patterns and reduce attitudes of domination and discrimination" (15).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"The municipal offices for women conduct awareness-raising and training sessions designed to transform sociocultural patterns and reduce attitudes of domination and discrimination" (15).
Jan. 10, 2025, 6:20 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"[M]en are yoked with the role of 'provider.' A study of single fathers from Mexico City in 2010 published in the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico’s quarterly academic journal, Papeles de Población, found that fatherhood is culturally defined as an obligation of men to fund a home. If a father is unable to afford child support, that can label him as a failure" (para 9). "These societal expectations can mean men and women are expected to act as caricatures of the masculine and feminine. Since women are idealized as caring, subservient and self-denying homemakers, they are also typified as the parent responsible for raising their children, while fatherhood...more
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"[M]en are yoked with the role of 'provider.' A study of single fathers from Mexico City in 2010 published in the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico’s quarterly academic journal, Papeles de Población, found that fatherhood is culturally defined as an obligation of men to fund a home. If a father is unable to afford child support, that can label him as a failure" (para 9). "These societal expectations can mean men and women are expected to act as caricatures of the masculine and feminine. Since women are idealized as caring, subservient and self-denying homemakers, they are also typified as the parent responsible for raising their children, while fatherhood...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Maldives
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Women who stray from 'feminine' traits are considered as an affront to religion, abused as being without faith" (para 10).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Women who stray from 'feminine' traits are considered as an affront to religion, abused as being without faith" (para 10).
Jan. 10, 2025, 6:04 p.m.
Countries: Kenya
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Naisimoi explained that many women from her community were expected to fit traditional roles. 'They’re just there to be married'" (para 6).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Naisimoi explained that many women from her community were expected to fit traditional roles. 'They’re just there to be married'" (para 6).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:48 a.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"The characterization of girls with sexual connotations will be prohibited and the exclusive association of toys with roles such as caring, domestic work or beauty with them (girls), and action, physical activity or technology with boys will be avoided" (para 3). This indicates that this is how views of manhood and womanhood were in the society, but efforts are being made to change that (MB2-CODER COMMENT). "The idea is that companies will no longer use colors such as blue or pink to indicate products intended for boys or girls" (para 4).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"The characterization of girls with sexual connotations will be prohibited and the exclusive association of toys with roles such as caring, domestic work or beauty with them (girls), and action, physical activity or technology with boys will be avoided" (para 3). This indicates that this is how views of manhood and womanhood were in the society, but efforts are being made to change that (MB2-CODER COMMENT). "The idea is that companies will no longer use colors such as blue or pink to indicate products intended for boys or girls" (para 4).
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:58 a.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: MULV-PRACTICE-1, DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Carbó said the notion of 'the good mother' is so strong in society that anyone who does not recognise their pregnancy is immediately disapproved of" (para 12).
Variables: MULV-PRACTICE-1, DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Carbó said the notion of 'the good mother' is so strong in society that anyone who does not recognise their pregnancy is immediately disapproved of" (para 12).
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:53 a.m.
Countries: Chile
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"According to a recent survey carried out by pollster Criteria, 58% of Chileans still consider their country machista, and 82% of men and 65% of women said they felt little or no connection to Chile’s feminist movement" (para 15).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"According to a recent survey carried out by pollster Criteria, 58% of Chileans still consider their country machista, and 82% of men and 65% of women said they felt little or no connection to Chile’s feminist movement" (para 15).
Jan. 8, 2025, 3:34 p.m.
Countries: Tajikistan
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"A national strategy for promoting the role of women in Tajikistan for the period 2021–2030 and a plan of action for 2021–2025 for the implementation of the national strategy were adopted by Government decision No. 167 of 30 April 2021. An amount of 641,360 somoni was allocated from the State budget and 587,600 somoni was allocated by development partners for the implementation of the strategy. The adoption of this strategy was prompted by a number of issues related to improving the status of women in society, including the activation of their role, lack of public understanding of the need for gender equality and the implementation of the gender policy, stereotypes...more
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"A national strategy for promoting the role of women in Tajikistan for the period 2021–2030 and a plan of action for 2021–2025 for the implementation of the national strategy were adopted by Government decision No. 167 of 30 April 2021. An amount of 641,360 somoni was allocated from the State budget and 587,600 somoni was allocated by development partners for the implementation of the strategy. The adoption of this strategy was prompted by a number of issues related to improving the status of women in society, including the activation of their role, lack of public understanding of the need for gender equality and the implementation of the gender policy, stereotypes...more
Jan. 4, 2025, 12:11 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
“‘Practicing bihon means you’re eliminating the risks that come from heterosexual marriage or dating,’ Yeowon, a 26-year-old office worker, told me on a café terrace in the seaside southern city of Busan. We talked over coffee and pastries, along with Yeowon’s girlfriend and another of their friends, all of them wearing wide black pants and black sweaters and sporting cropped short haircuts. Those risks Yeowon alluded to might seem familiar — trading career for child-rearing and housework, as well as the threat of physical violence — but in Korea, Yeowon said, marriage presents an existential threat” (para 8). “There was a time when Minji, a 4B adherent in Daegu, had...more
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
“‘Practicing bihon means you’re eliminating the risks that come from heterosexual marriage or dating,’ Yeowon, a 26-year-old office worker, told me on a café terrace in the seaside southern city of Busan. We talked over coffee and pastries, along with Yeowon’s girlfriend and another of their friends, all of them wearing wide black pants and black sweaters and sporting cropped short haircuts. Those risks Yeowon alluded to might seem familiar — trading career for child-rearing and housework, as well as the threat of physical violence — but in Korea, Yeowon said, marriage presents an existential threat” (para 8). “There was a time when Minji, a 4B adherent in Daegu, had...more
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:52 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Cortellesi said she wanted to make the film, partly inspired by her grandmothers’ stories of that period, in the past in order to raise issues that persist in Italian society amid a lingering toxic machismo" (para 10).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Cortellesi said she wanted to make the film, partly inspired by her grandmothers’ stories of that period, in the past in order to raise issues that persist in Italian society amid a lingering toxic machismo" (para 10).
Dec. 13, 2024, 4:38 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"'Women are objectified by their male peers and juniors, by their coworkers and bosses, and even by their closest acquaintances as objects to be evaluated based on their looks and gender, as things to be humiliated sexually and destroyed'" (para 8).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"'Women are objectified by their male peers and juniors, by their coworkers and bosses, and even by their closest acquaintances as objects to be evaluated based on their looks and gender, as things to be humiliated sexually and destroyed'" (para 8).
Dec. 12, 2024, 6:06 p.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Unwritten social pressure means 'it is considered not very positive for a woman to want to stand out,' said Harumi Yoshida, acting chief of gender equality promotion for the Constitutional Democratic Party" (para 17).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Unwritten social pressure means 'it is considered not very positive for a woman to want to stand out,' said Harumi Yoshida, acting chief of gender equality promotion for the Constitutional Democratic Party" (para 17).
Dec. 10, 2024, 4:07 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"No matter what else happens in her political career or where her six years in power lead her, she will always be the woman who managed to break the glass ceiling in Mexican politics. Given the country’s deeply ingrained patriarchy and entrenched machismo, that is no small feat" (para 5).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"No matter what else happens in her political career or where her six years in power lead her, she will always be the woman who managed to break the glass ceiling in Mexican politics. Given the country’s deeply ingrained patriarchy and entrenched machismo, that is no small feat" (para 5).
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:15 a.m.
Countries: Bangladesh
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Legal reform must be coupled with changing social norms that permit men to assert power over women, the same norms that place value on women and girls based on their appearance" (para 36).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Legal reform must be coupled with changing social norms that permit men to assert power over women, the same norms that place value on women and girls based on their appearance" (para 36).
Dec. 6, 2024, 9:44 a.m.
Countries: India
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-1, DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Despite their country's fast development, lots of Indians still have conservative ideas about a woman's role in the family. 'Family is the first priority for many women across the world, but especially in a country like India that's very traditional. We still live in joint [multi-generational] families with obligations and a glorified image of women as mothers sacrificing, caring and nurturing,' says Sharada, the sociologist. 'The other aspects of a woman – as a competitor or achiever with aspirations — are not given much importance'" (para 30-31).
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-1, DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Despite their country's fast development, lots of Indians still have conservative ideas about a woman's role in the family. 'Family is the first priority for many women across the world, but especially in a country like India that's very traditional. We still live in joint [multi-generational] families with obligations and a glorified image of women as mothers sacrificing, caring and nurturing,' says Sharada, the sociologist. 'The other aspects of a woman – as a competitor or achiever with aspirations — are not given much importance'" (para 30-31).
Dec. 5, 2024, 4:37 p.m.
Countries: Norway
Variables: CL-PRACTICE-2, DMW-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee notes...with concern that women are overrepresented among caregivers for older family members and that campaigns to encourage men to take up caretaking professions overemphasize the technological aspects of such care, which reinforces stereotypes that men are more skilled and interested in technology than women" (6).
Variables: CL-PRACTICE-2, DMW-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee notes...with concern that women are overrepresented among caregivers for older family members and that campaigns to encourage men to take up caretaking professions overemphasize the technological aspects of such care, which reinforces stereotypes that men are more skilled and interested in technology than women" (6).
Dec. 3, 2024, 4:25 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Another international aid worker who wished to remain anonymous said curbing FGM in Chad was very difficult because many communities held deep-rooted beliefs that it was an essential part of a girl’s life. 'It’s legally banned but people still do it secretly,' the aid worker said. 'We see many cases of FGM in women when they arrive at hospitals for unrelated health issues. We also learn about it when a cutting goes wrong and girls are transferred to clinics with health complications such as bleeding.' The aid worker situated FGM in the context of the wider violence that Sudanese people have been subjected to in recent years. 'The level of...more
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Another international aid worker who wished to remain anonymous said curbing FGM in Chad was very difficult because many communities held deep-rooted beliefs that it was an essential part of a girl’s life. 'It’s legally banned but people still do it secretly,' the aid worker said. 'We see many cases of FGM in women when they arrive at hospitals for unrelated health issues. We also learn about it when a cutting goes wrong and girls are transferred to clinics with health complications such as bleeding.' The aid worker situated FGM in the context of the wider violence that Sudanese people have been subjected to in recent years. 'The level of...more
Dec. 3, 2024, 4:24 p.m.
Countries: Chad
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Another international aid worker who wished to remain anonymous said curbing FGM in Chad was very difficult because many communities held deep-rooted beliefs that it was an essential part of a girl’s life. 'It’s legally banned but people still do it secretly,' the aid worker said. 'We see many cases of FGM in women when they arrive at hospitals for unrelated health issues. We also learn about it when a cutting goes wrong and girls are transferred to clinics with health complications such as bleeding.' The aid worker situated FGM in the context of the wider violence that Sudanese people have been subjected to in recent years. 'The level of...more
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Another international aid worker who wished to remain anonymous said curbing FGM in Chad was very difficult because many communities held deep-rooted beliefs that it was an essential part of a girl’s life. 'It’s legally banned but people still do it secretly,' the aid worker said. 'We see many cases of FGM in women when they arrive at hospitals for unrelated health issues. We also learn about it when a cutting goes wrong and girls are transferred to clinics with health complications such as bleeding.' The aid worker situated FGM in the context of the wider violence that Sudanese people have been subjected to in recent years. 'The level of...more
Nov. 16, 2024, 9:46 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-4, ATFPA-PRACTICE-1, DMW-PRACTICE-1, GP-DATA-1
"We [Taiwan] elected an unmarried, childless woman as president and legalized same-sex marriage" (para 2).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-4, ATFPA-PRACTICE-1, DMW-PRACTICE-1, GP-DATA-1
"We [Taiwan] elected an unmarried, childless woman as president and legalized same-sex marriage" (para 2).
Nov. 16, 2024, 2:54 p.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: MULV-PRACTICE-1, DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Carbó said the notion of 'the good mother' is so strong in society that anyone who does not recognise their pregnancy is immediately disapproved of" (para 12).
Variables: MULV-PRACTICE-1, DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Carbó said the notion of 'the good mother' is so strong in society that anyone who does not recognise their pregnancy is immediately disapproved of" (para 12).
Nov. 12, 2024, 6:12 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
“‘Practicing bihon means you’re eliminating the risks that come from heterosexual marriage or dating,’ Yeowon, a 26-year-old office worker, told me on a café terrace in the seaside southern city of Busan. We talked over coffee and pastries, along with Yeowon’s girlfriend and another of their friends, all of them wearing wide black pants and black sweaters and sporting cropped short haircuts. Those risks Yeowon alluded to might seem familiar — trading career for child-rearing and housework, as well as the threat of physical violence — but in Korea, Yeowon said, marriage presents an existential threat” (para 8). “There was a time when Minji, a 4B adherent in Daegu, had...more
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
“‘Practicing bihon means you’re eliminating the risks that come from heterosexual marriage or dating,’ Yeowon, a 26-year-old office worker, told me on a café terrace in the seaside southern city of Busan. We talked over coffee and pastries, along with Yeowon’s girlfriend and another of their friends, all of them wearing wide black pants and black sweaters and sporting cropped short haircuts. Those risks Yeowon alluded to might seem familiar — trading career for child-rearing and housework, as well as the threat of physical violence — but in Korea, Yeowon said, marriage presents an existential threat” (para 8). “There was a time when Minji, a 4B adherent in Daegu, had...more
Nov. 12, 2024, 1:32 p.m.
Countries: Latvia
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee is...concerned: at the fact that discriminatory gender stereotypes and patriarchal and sexist messaging in the media and by politicians, as well as calls for adherence to traditional roles and values for women, persist in the State party; at the 2015 amendments to the Education Law providing for the moral upbringing of pupils, including in conformity with the constitutionally protected values of marriage and family, which may perpetuate discriminatory stereotypes regarding the roles and responsibilities of women and men in the family and in society. The Committee recommends that the State party: adopt a comprehensive strategy to combat discriminatory stereotypes regarding the roles and responsibilities of women and men...more
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee is...concerned: at the fact that discriminatory gender stereotypes and patriarchal and sexist messaging in the media and by politicians, as well as calls for adherence to traditional roles and values for women, persist in the State party; at the 2015 amendments to the Education Law providing for the moral upbringing of pupils, including in conformity with the constitutionally protected values of marriage and family, which may perpetuate discriminatory stereotypes regarding the roles and responsibilities of women and men in the family and in society. The Committee recommends that the State party: adopt a comprehensive strategy to combat discriminatory stereotypes regarding the roles and responsibilities of women and men...more
Nov. 5, 2024, 12:59 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Young people...push back on traditional ideas about the woman’s role as a caretaker at home. Many have expressed a desire to focus on their careers, while others have embraced a lifestyle known as 'double income, no kids' (para 9). "'In our hometown, if you don’t have children, you would not be able to hold your head high,' Ms. Wang [IVF recipient] said" (para 17).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Young people...push back on traditional ideas about the woman’s role as a caretaker at home. Many have expressed a desire to focus on their careers, while others have embraced a lifestyle known as 'double income, no kids' (para 9). "'In our hometown, if you don’t have children, you would not be able to hold your head high,' Ms. Wang [IVF recipient] said" (para 17).
Nov. 1, 2024, 10:37 a.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2, ATFPA-PRACTICE-3, DMW-PRACTICE-1
"This violence against women in war is in some ways an extension of Sudan’s patriarchal social structure. It’s vital to understand the gendered dimension of Sudan’s social and political structures, which leave women and girls largely powerless outside the home and subservient within it. Sudanese national identity is highly gendered, shaped by a discourse that draws heavily on an ideal of women as exemplars of culture and morality. Symbols of women as mothers and nurturers are central to the moral fabric of Sudanese society and indeed to its stability. Strict gender codes exist to ensure women conform to this role and violence is thereby seen as legitimate" (para 7-9).more
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2, ATFPA-PRACTICE-3, DMW-PRACTICE-1
"This violence against women in war is in some ways an extension of Sudan’s patriarchal social structure. It’s vital to understand the gendered dimension of Sudan’s social and political structures, which leave women and girls largely powerless outside the home and subservient within it. Sudanese national identity is highly gendered, shaped by a discourse that draws heavily on an ideal of women as exemplars of culture and morality. Symbols of women as mothers and nurturers are central to the moral fabric of Sudanese society and indeed to its stability. Strict gender codes exist to ensure women conform to this role and violence is thereby seen as legitimate" (para 7-9).more