How Changing Social Norms is Crucial in Achieving Gender Equality
Categories: Global Public Health, Human Rights
Sub-Categories: Democratization and Political Participation, Economic Participation, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Sexual and Reproductive Health
Region: No Region
Year: 2020
Citation: "How Changing Social Norms is Crucial in Achieving Gender Equality." United Nations Population Fund. June 2020.
Sub-Categories: Democratization and Political Participation, Economic Participation, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Sexual and Reproductive Health
Region: No Region
Year: 2020
Citation: "How Changing Social Norms is Crucial in Achieving Gender Equality." United Nations Population Fund. June 2020.
Executive Summary
UNFPA has released this compendium on social norms change to achieve gender equality, which provides a framework for programmatic approaches to norms change at scale.
This document presents some of the most promising strategies for changing social norms and achieving gender equality. A greater understanding of the conceptual background of social norms and norms change provides a schematic – a skeleton outline – for social transformation. The compendium presents the tested processes of social norms change and a programme design framework, as applied to programming to end female genital mutilation. These processes are iterative, simultaneous and self-reinforcing and can be applied to other thematic areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights.