State of the World’s Fathers Report to Launch June 2019 in Advance of Father’s Day

In June 2019, at the Women Deliver Global Conference in Vancouver, Canada, Equimundo and Sonke Gender Justice will launch MenCare’s third-ever Estado de los padres del mundo report with its Steering Committee and partners, featuring new, cross-country analysis and data on men’s caregiving.

The report, sponsored by Unilever, Dove Men+Care, calls for men’s uptake of their full share of the world’s childcare and domestic work, across all societies and across all relationships.

Estado de los padres del mundo, a MenCare publication produced by Equimundo, is a globally recognized, biennial report and advocacy platform aiming to change power structures, policies, and social norms around care work and to advance gender equality. It presents not only the state of the field, but also a vision and pathway to achieve men’s equal participation in unpaid care for the benefit of women, children, men themselves, and society more broadly.

Since 2015, Estado de los padres del mundo has motivated high-level political and civil society advocates to speak out and build long-term partnerships and coalitions; and it has informed debates on paternity and parental leave policies in the Netherlands, Brazil, South Africa, and in Washington, DC. The report has been launched at the United Nations in New York and Geneva, as well as in more than 10 other cities around the world, inspiring translations into six languages and nine regional reports.

Estado de los padres del mundo has received global attention. It has been featured in news outlets from El New York Times a Glamour, FiveThirtyEight, y El guardián, with a potential readership of over 2.2 billion; has received over 42 million impressions on social media; and the Estado de los padres del mundo landing page has been visited over 80,000 times.

The 2019 report will reveal new data from multiple sources, and from 12 countries globally, with additional cross-country analysis of data from a survey conducted in over 40 countries. New research includes:

Never-before-seen data and analysis on men’s attitudes around caregiving – and why they may or may not be taking the time to do it – in the US, UK, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Canada, y the Netherlands, led by Equimundo in partnership with Unilever, Dove Men+Care;
Cross-country analysis of data collected on men’s attitudes and behaviors around caregiving from Equimundo and the International Center for Research on Women’s Encuesta internacional sobre hombres e igualdad de género (IMAGES), the most comprehensive household survey to assess what men think and how they act when it comes to gender equality (with regard to violence, caregiving, health, and more), carried out in over 40 countries to date;
New qualitative data: in-depth conversations with fathers, mothers, and children, from a selection of countries in Plan International Canada’s SHOW project, which aims to improve the health of women, adolescent girls, mothers, newborns, and children in under-served areas of Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Bangladesh and Haiti;
Global visualizations of data from the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) analysis; and
An in-depth case study on paternity leave policy change in el Netherlands, from Rutgers.

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Are you a MenCare partner who will be attending the Women Deliver 2019? Let us know at info@equimundo.org.

This report is also supported by Plan International Canada and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).