Man Enough? Measuring Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Empowerment
Masculinities can either support or hinder women’s empowerment and greater gender
equality. However, a lack of consistent and comparable data hinders efforts to understand
and assess harmful, restrictive masculinities. This report identifies and describes
ten norms of restrictive masculinities to be urgently addressed within the political,
economic and private spheres. Alongside these norms the report highlights gender-equitable
alternatives, which support women’s empowerment in practice. By mapping available
and ideal indicators, the report provides a roadmap for efforts to measure changing
norms of masculinities. In doing so, this report aims to support policies to transform
masculinities by facilitating the creation of more and better data on masculine norms.