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Respect Victoria has been doing a lot of work to highlight how to challenge assumptions about gender and when they can become harmful. As part of 16 Days, you may want to highlight how some gender roles can be harmful, and how they can be challenged in safe and supportive ways.
Treating assumptions about gender as rules to live by can create problems – for instance assumptions and beliefs that men are dominant and aggressive, and women weak and vulnerable.
These assumptions become harmful ideas that we, often unknowingly, can take into our homes, relationships, workplaces and communities.
These assumptions can drive violence against women, but they also negatively impact the health and wellbeing of men and boys.
Learn more:
- Willing, Capable and Confident – Respect Victoria
- The Man Box 2024 – Jesuit Social Services
- Gender Stereotypes – The Line
- Masculinities and health – VicHealth
- Challenging gender stereotypes in the early years: the power of parents report – Our Watch
- Respect Starts With A Conversation – Respect Victoria