152. Why I am talking more about men for this years International Women's Day

About this episode

Gemma Stow discusses the importance of focusing on men's roles in achieving gender equity for International Women's Day.

Why I am talking more about men for this years International Women's Day. In all transparency, last IWD I wasn't thrilled at the prospect of celebrating another day filled with purple balloons, cupcakes and being told to hug ourselves. The whole thing was starting to make me cringe. How will all this smash the patriarchy? Now this sounds crazy to you and me both because I know how important days like this are for raising awareness - thats the whole point of awareness days / weeks / months, but that's just the thing - has it lost it's way? For me its about reminding everyone why it's still important to work on gender equity because we are still not there yet and the recent and some that seem neverending events around the world where by women and children are the ones really feeling the dire and often demoralising consequences are enough to make anyone think why bother? However this is exactly why we need to. The time is NOW. There's a lot of despair in the world right now around women's rights and gender equity. I cannot believe what I am seeing.I feel like we are going backwards; although maybe this is what others want us to believe; in fact maybe it's just the opposite. This…

People in this episode

Host: Gemma Stow

Topics covered

• International Women's Day
• gender equity
• men's role
• patriarchy
• women's rights
• social change

Keywords

• International Women's Day
• gender equity
• patriarchy
• women's rights
• social change
• men's involvement
• gender-based violence

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