A group of young Cambodian women and diversity movements is highlighting a wide range of gender violence and equality issues over a 16-day campaign using surveys and social media storytelling.
“Is this how things are supposed to happen in Cambodia?” Mean Pich Rita, who has accused an oknha of attempted rape, asks her mother in a widely circulated video. It is painful and frustrating to have to give a simple but true answer to this question: Yes, this is the way it has been, writes Future Forum researcher Theang Soriya.
It’s a blind spot that you probably aren’t expecting to hear about on International Women’s Day: Not enough attention is being paid to the roles that men could play, or are playing, either in pushing the gender equality movement forward, or holding it back.
A growing number of men are becoming stay-at-home dads, a job that advocates say is undervalued, underappreciated and entangled with traditional gender expectations in the country.
Male gender stereotypes — socially constructed norms that characterize what it means to be an “ideal man” — have damaging effects on all genders, writes Theang Soriya.
Civil society organizations have appealed to the government to stop the use of violence against women human rights defenders.
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