Attitudes towards gender roles

The media plays an important role in recreating and reinforcing gender stereotypes as well as shaping new attitudes.

It had been virtually impossible, in the short period since Latvia's independence, to change public attitudes about gender roles.

(i) Develop and implement policies and programmes, including awareness campaigns and gender equality training, particularly for men and boys, to promote gender equality and positive attitudes and behaviour

Various Government projects targeting local and national media were aimed at eliminating attitudes and approaches that might exacerbate gender inequalities.

In connection with the 2005 Human Development Report, Azerbaijan had embarked on a survey of gender attitudes to stimulate public debate and trigger policy action to ensure greater gender equality.

These included financial constraints, biased governance methods that tended to favour men over women gender stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes and practices.

The gender prejudiced environment favours the persistence of discriminating attitudes and primarily restricts women's participation in social, economic and political life.

We can change national attitudes to women and national attitudes to HIV.

In 2003, the Open Society Institute conducted a gender equality monitoring survey commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs with the aim to find out the opinions and attitudes of society towards gender equality and the role of women and men.

They note that despite considerable progress, gender equality among young people remains a pressing issue, particularly because attitudes towards women are formed during the transformational years of young adulthood.

(j) Take measures to ensure the elimination of gender stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes and practices, including in the delivery of health services and education programmes and in the workplace

(e) To intensify efforts to raise awareness about the responsibility of men to promote gender equality and bring about change in attitudes to eliminate gender stereotypes, including, specifically, their role in preventing crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour

Reflecting the foundation of gender equality and the absence of discriminatory attitudes to women, the Constitution and legislation specified that the citizen was the subject or object of their provisions.

Our attitudes must change.

Attitudes to parental roles

These attitudes are changing.

In all those areas, UNIFEM had pursued an integrated approach, supporting laws and policies to promote women's human rights, helping institutions allocate resources and establish accountability mechanisms to make such laws and policies meaningful, strengthening gender advocates and changing harmful attitudes that perpetuated gender inequality around the world.

Policies based on generalities will not work. To initiate a fundamental shift in citizens gender related attitudes and behavior, India s leaders must understand by the numbers the often dramatic disparities between their country s individual states.

The UNDP Japan WID Fund allocated 350,000 for a national programme on gender and HIV AIDS, including a survey of norms, attitudes and traditional practices that either fuel or limit the spread of HIV AIDS.

Attitudes towards women in the Health System

Bearing in mind the challenges and obstacles to changing discriminatory attitudes and gender stereotypes, and stressing that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of international standards and norms to address the inequality between men and women,

Bearing in mind the challenges and obstacles to changing discriminatory attitudes and gender stereotypes, and stressing that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of international standards and norms to address the inequality between men and women,

These kids have attitudes that you just can't believe.

We need to change attitudes to women in Africa.

UNIFEM uses public campaigns and media to change attitudes.

In 2000 they had particularly interesting questions about racial attitudes.

The report notes, however, that public attitudes have lagged behind policy.

Effective measures should be taken to overcome these attitudes and practices.

And if we can change enough communities, we can change national attitudes.

Discriminatory attitudes in relation to the carriers of the HIV are condemned.

These events also focused on the issue of addressing negative social attitudes.

Calls upon Governments to intensify efforts to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls in relation to HIV AIDS, including through challenging stereotypes, stigmatization, discriminatory attitudes and gender inequalities and to encourage the active involvement of men and boys in this regard

So we really need to think about looking at teacher attitudes and finding ways to change the attitudes so that teachers are much more open and accepting of boy cultures in their classrooms.

They change the way communities think we need to change attitudes to HIV.

However, it is also clear that changing of values and attitudes takes time.

I am convinced that it is indispensable to change attitudes in the capitals.

Well we studied teenagers' attitudes to photographs of patients having this corrective facial surgery.

Nowhere is it more important to promote those values and attitudes than among youth.

Attitudes must be changed, and cultural patterns which discriminated against women must be eliminated.

She enquired about the basis for racist attitudes towards members of the Traveller community.

Legal and punitive measures cannot be totally successful unless the attitudes of society change.

Indicators are needed to track changes in norms, values and attitudes over time.19

Our results provide a surprisingly nuanced picture of Saudi attitudes. Compared to respondents in the other Middle Eastern countries, Saudis were less religious overall, and their attitudes toward democracy and arranged marriage also indicate a moderate undercurrent.

Prevailing social attitudes remained the major obstacle to progress in that regard, hence the Government, in partnership with non governmental organizations, was taking steps to change those attitudes through awareness raising campaigns that focused on health issues.