Driving Change – Safe & Equal
It’s important for men to have safe spaces that they can be vulnerable with each other. This enables them to breakdown rigid gender stereotypes like “men have to be stoic and not show emotion” and create supportive and positive friendships. Matt Brown talks about how he helped to create these spaces for men in his community to “take off their masks”, and the importance of men taking responsibility for doing it themselves and not expecting women to do it for them.
Primary prevention initiatives work best when they are tailored to their local context. In this episode of the Centre for Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Conversations Podcast, three experts discuss the community-led initiatives they’ve been involved in. These initiatives varied in scale but shared core components. The podcast includes Dixie Link-Gordon, Aunty-in-residence at the Women and Girls Emergency Centre, Dr Zoe Bell, CEVAW Research Fellow at ANU, and Dr Jenny Anderson with Respect Victoria.
This video describes the sexist double standards in how men and women are described in english and the way certain words have been gendered and how that has changed over time.