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A recent International Men and Gender Equality Survey reports a new low for Indian men. The International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) is a comprehensive household questionnaire on mens attitudes and practices along with womens opinions and reports of mens practices on a wide variety of topics related to gender equality. IMAGES is a component of the Men and Gender Equality Policy Project coordinated by ICRW and Instituto Promundo.
Topics included in the Survey are: Gender-based violence;
Health and health-related practices;
Household division of labor;
Mens participation in caregiving and as fathers;
Mens and womens attitudes about gender and gender-related policies;
Transactional sex; mens reports of criminal behavior;
Quality of life.
Analysts from the International Centre for Research on Women ( ICRW in US and India) and Instituto Promundo in Brazil, who led the survey, interviewed more than 8,000 men and 3,500 women, aged 18 to 59, from these countries. Here are the key findings.
India bottom of the pile when it comes to gender equality.
Nearly one in four Indian men has committed sexual violence at some point in their lives
One in five has admittedly forced his wife or partner to have sex.
Indian men were the worst offenders in terms of sexual violence, more than 1,000 men from the 1,500 interviewed in India were from Delhi.
The survey confirmed the high incidence of sexual assault in Delhi: the capital witnessed 489 rapes last year.
Rwanda joined India with highest rate of domestic violence, with 38% men admitting they had physically abused their partners. Worse, more than 65% Indian men also believed that women should tolerate violence to keep the family together and that women sometimes deserved to be beaten.
Only 2% Brazilian males and less than 9% of men in Chile, Croatia, Mexico and Rwanda were found to have indulged in sexual violence.
While Croatia topped the test, with 82% gender-just men, more than 50% men in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico made the grade. Rwanda, which is among the least developed nations in the world, in fact, fared better than India, with 30% males qualifying as highly equitable.
The survey focused on violence in the privacy of homes but also in the public places.
Many blamed the repression of sexuality in India for the high rate of sexual violence. All the other countries surveyed have more sexual freedom than India
The Gender survey was conducted in six developing countries across four continents to map attitudes and practices related to gender equality.
Indians were ranked last on the gender equitable men scale, given that only 17% of men here qualified to the highly equitable (gender-just) category. The percentage was the lowest for this category among the six countries. On sexual violence, 24% said they had committed some form of it in their lives.
Source: International Men and Gender Equality Survey, International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) | The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Evolving Men: Initial Results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey | www.urbanreproductivehealth.org, Evolving Men | The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Times of India,
Topics included in the Survey are: Gender-based violence;
Health and health-related practices;
Household division of labor;
Mens participation in caregiving and as fathers;
Mens and womens attitudes about gender and gender-related policies;
Transactional sex; mens reports of criminal behavior;
Quality of life.
Analysts from the International Centre for Research on Women ( ICRW in US and India) and Instituto Promundo in Brazil, who led the survey, interviewed more than 8,000 men and 3,500 women, aged 18 to 59, from these countries. Here are the key findings.
India bottom of the pile when it comes to gender equality.
Nearly one in four Indian men has committed sexual violence at some point in their lives
One in five has admittedly forced his wife or partner to have sex.
Indian men were the worst offenders in terms of sexual violence, more than 1,000 men from the 1,500 interviewed in India were from Delhi.
The survey confirmed the high incidence of sexual assault in Delhi: the capital witnessed 489 rapes last year.
Rwanda joined India with highest rate of domestic violence, with 38% men admitting they had physically abused their partners. Worse, more than 65% Indian men also believed that women should tolerate violence to keep the family together and that women sometimes deserved to be beaten.
Only 2% Brazilian males and less than 9% of men in Chile, Croatia, Mexico and Rwanda were found to have indulged in sexual violence.
While Croatia topped the test, with 82% gender-just men, more than 50% men in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico made the grade. Rwanda, which is among the least developed nations in the world, in fact, fared better than India, with 30% males qualifying as highly equitable.
The survey focused on violence in the privacy of homes but also in the public places.
Many blamed the repression of sexuality in India for the high rate of sexual violence. All the other countries surveyed have more sexual freedom than India
The Gender survey was conducted in six developing countries across four continents to map attitudes and practices related to gender equality.
Indians were ranked last on the gender equitable men scale, given that only 17% of men here qualified to the highly equitable (gender-just) category. The percentage was the lowest for this category among the six countries. On sexual violence, 24% said they had committed some form of it in their lives.
Source: International Men and Gender Equality Survey, International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) | The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Evolving Men: Initial Results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey | www.urbanreproductivehealth.org, Evolving Men | The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Times of India,
