Title: Harmful Gender Norms & Roles Can Create a Lifelong Cycle of Gender Inequality | Save the Children
Headings: Gender Roles Can Create Lifelong Cycle of Inequality
Gender Roles Can Create Lifelong Cycle of Inequality
What is gender?
What are gender norms?
What are gender roles?
Harmful gender norms deny millions of girls their rights to education, health and independence
The negative impact of inequitable gender norms
The price of girls’ unpaid labor
Gender-based violence comes in many forms
What is Save the Children doing to challenge inequitable gender norms and promote gender equality?
Five ways Save the Children programs are working to shift gender norms to be more equitable:
How you can help challenge inequitable gender norms

Content: Holding policymakers accountable is critical to ensuring girls and boys experience a future that is full of opportunity. We’re taking action to ensure all children are treated fairly, including eliminating discriminatory policies, norms and behaviors, such as preventing girls from accessing health services or denying education to a child because of gender norms. At Save the Children, we invest in understanding how gender norms shape the lives of girls and boys. We include gender and power analysis across our programs to ensure we can develop context-informed strategies to address inequitable norms. Five ways Save the Children programs are working to shift gender norms to be more equitable: Reaching very young adolescents, before gender norms are cemented, to foster more equitable norms through games, reflection, and dialogue, and engagement with their caregivers and communities
Supporting shifts in harmful gender norms that drive GBV and exclusion
Preventing and responding to GBV, including emotional, physical and sexual violence, child marriage, female genital cutting and other forms GBV in development and humanitarian contexts
Addressing homophobia. transphobia, and intolerance for gender non-conformity
Promoting and nurturing positive expressions of masculinity
How you can help challenge inequitable gender norms
By supporting Save the Children, you’re changing children’s lives and the future we share! Donating, advocating or participating in an event challenge are all ways to fight gender inequality around the world. You can help bridge the gap between the challe