The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality

Two United Nations global conferences À“ the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 and the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 À“ signaled a political shift with relation to male engagement and responsibility. Other global conferences of the United Nations also brought attention to the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality, including the World Summit for Social Development, the twenty-sixth special session of the General Assembly on HIV / AIDS, and the twentyÀ“third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century, and the annual sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women, have also drawn attention to men and boys. The outcomes of these processes highlighted, among other things, the important roles of men and boys and sharing of family and household responsibilities, sexual and reproductive health and the HIV/ AIDS pandemic.

Publisher: United Nations
Year of Publication: 2008