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International Men and Gender Equality survey (IMAGES) respondents, the largest dataset in the world on men, masculinities and gender equality.
Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice works to promote gender equality and create a world free from violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women, girls, and individuals of all gender identities. Our work emerges from more than two decades of local and international research, which informs our program development and advocacy.
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Countries where Program H/Manhood 2.0, our research-backed flagship group education and community activism model for engaging young men on healthy masculinity and gender equality, has been implemented with community partners.
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State of the World’s Fathers Reports, the world’s only global report on men’s involvement in parenting and care work.
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International campaigns: MenCare and the Global Boyhood Initiative.
Learn more about how we leverage our research for action through MenCare and the Global Boyhood Initiative
Our Work
Equimundo works to achieve gender equality and social justice by transforming intergenerational patterns of harm and promoting patterns of care, empathy and accountability among boys and men throughout their lives. With a research-first mindset to build practice-based knowledge, we work across three thematic areas.
Equimundo’s work focuses on shifting norms, attitudes and behaviors of individuals, of whole communities, and of important policy and norm-setting institutions that shape and define masculinity and gender equality.
The Caring Masculinity Fund
In May 2024, Melinda French Gates named Gary Barker, Equimundo President and CEO, as one of 12 global leaders who will each distribute a $20 million fund to charitable organizations doing urgent, impactful, and innovative work to improve women’s health and well-being in the United States and around the world. This opportunity comes as a part of an effort by Pivotal Ventures to mobilize billions of dollars toward advancing women’s power globally.
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Research Reports
State of American Men 2023
The inaugural State of American Men report by Equimundo, “From Crisis and Confusion to Hope,” seeks to understand the realities of men in 2023. …
Research Reports
The Manosphere, Rewired
When two-thirds of young men feel that “no one really knows” them, as State of American Men 2023 shows, they reveal the fragility of their connections and relationships. This “crisis of connection” collides with the reality that no one really seems to agree on what a “good man” looks like or how to become one. The combination of these two truths creates the perfect conditions for men to seek connection in the digital world via the manosphere – a diverse collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism – which swoops in to provide clear messages around gender and gender roles to make simple sense of an otherwise complicated world. …
Research Reports
State of the World’s Fathers 2023
The State of the World’s Fathers 2023 (SOWF 2023) report reveals that thousands of women and men across the world are calling for care to be central to their lives, which can only be addressed by a fundamental overhaul of power structures, policies, and social norms around both paid and unpaid care work. …
Research Reports
Men and Gender Equality: A Global Status Report in 15 Headlines
A key driver to achieving meaningful gender equality is understanding not only women’s attitudes but men’s too, alongside their behaviors inside and outside the home and actively …
Research Reports
State of America’s Fathers 2023
The State of America's Fathers study and report start from the belief that empowering and supporting men to be caregivers is necessary for all of us – for women and gender-diverse individuals and the equality they deserve, for children, for men themselves, and for our country. …
Research Reports
The Care Burden Affects Us All: Assessing men’s stake as caregivers in the United States
Care work is in and of itself valuable and important, and it is also a critical part of our economy—it allows for labor participation and economic production—yet is too often underpaid and undervalued in this country. Data show that more than 80% of men believe that unpaid care work at home is as valuable as paid work, valuable to society, and that men and women should share care responsibilities equally. …
Program Materials
Core Elements of Gender Transformative Fatherhood Programs to Promote Care Equality and Prevent Violence
Program P (“P” for the words for father in Portuguese, pai, and Spanish, padre) was developed in 2011 specifically to promote men’s positive involvement as fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and in caring for their children. Since then, it has been adapted in close to 30 countries by a wide array of partner organizations, ranging from small community-based organizations to large multilateral development organizations and governments, often in partnership with Equimundo. …
Research Reports
Long-term impacts of the Bandebereho program on violence against women and children, maternal health-seeking, and couple relations in Rwanda
Programs that work with parents to build couple relationship and parenting skills and include critical reflection on gender norms are a promising approach for reducing violence against …
