Modern Men in Enlarged Europe: Developing Innovative Gender Equality Strategies
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 The project Modern Men in Enlarged Europe: Developing Innovative Gender Equality Strategies aims at fostering sustainable change in gender identities by encouraging men to take up new and modern gender roles as well as overcome hegemonic masculinity. Hereby contributing to the implementation of the ambition of the Community Framework Strategy on Gender Equality. The project evolves around the use of paternity leave as a means to confront stereotypes on men and to develop new images of men as care-givers. The four participating countries represent four quite different situations, but share the common experience that men who take up new roles are a gain for the families, the enterprises and the societies in general.
With a focus on men on leave the objectives are to identify and develop comprehensive strategies and tools, to research, collect, promote and disseminate good practices, to encourage new masculinity representation in media and raise the awareness of key actors in Lithuania, Denmark, Iceland and Malta as well as other European countries.
In order to identify these social strategies, we will locate different forms for obstacles, and focus on how men act to overcome them. We expect to find obstacles that are connected to cultural gender roles/stereotypes, the labour marked sphere, and some will be anchored in economic reasoning.
The project also seeks to strengthen international cooperation on gender mainstreaming policies, and to transfer knowledge and good practices at the European level in the most effective way. Methods to be used are trans-national activities such as exchange and dissemination of experiences and good practices through research, publications, contacts with media, network meetings, seminars, website, informational campaigns, action weeks, international conference. |
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Main project activities
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Project website
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Documentary movie about men on paternity leave (will be produced in Malta).
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Informational brochures about the project will be disseminated during the seminars, informational campaign and trans-national conference.
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Each national partner is responsible for dissemination of information about the project, research and investigation results. This will be accomplished by articles, radio and TV broadcasts.
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Publication and dissemination of research results by means of press conferences, public presentations and future seminars.
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Publishing and dissemination of stories book.
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Campaign related to Father’s Day in Lithuania.
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Seven seminars/public meetings with decision-makers, employers and public partners will be held to discuss gender stereotypes and men on paternity leave issues. Media will be informed and invited to the seminars.
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Trans-national conference will be held.
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National reports will be published on-line on the website in national languages and promoted by national partners. |
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This project actively involves mass media in all partner countries to encourage public discussions/attention and change in attitudes concerning men as care-gives, its aim is to overcome hegemonic masculinity stereotypes.
This component of the project also includes creating the visual concept of the project. Lithuania will also develop an integrated promotion campaign through channels of TV, radio and press, and organise an event related to Father’s Day (postcards and posters), etc. Malta will produce a short 15-20 minute documentary in Maltese which will be disseminated on local television stations and will be presented during the seminar which Malta will hold for policy makers, employers and related stake holders.
About publications
The publications of this project will have sustainable value and could be used as material for trainings, informational campaigns and dissemination of project insights even after the end of the project. They will present the idea of the project and disseminate the information on the planned activities to potentially interested actors (men that have already taken or could potentially take paternity leave, decision-makers in public sector, employers, the media, society at large) in partner as well as other European countries.
Publications include:
- a joint report of the research on paternity leave (in English and national languages),
- a book containing the selected stories of men in each of the partner countries (in English and national languages),
- brochures presenting the project and the issue of men on paternity leave,
- brochures related to the promotion of the project results (in national languages),
- translation of the book of Norwegian researcher Oystein Gullvag Holter called Can Men Do It? into Lithuanian.
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