New Learning Opportunities

Can I really prevent gender-based violence as a cis man?

Approximately 4.7 million women – or 30% of all women aged 15 and older – have been sexually assaulted outside of intimate relationships at least once since age 15. (Statistics Canada 2019)

Sexual violence disproportionately affects women, girls and gender-diverse peoples and the main perpetrators of sexual violence are cis-gendered men. This does not mean that all men commit gender-based violence or that men cannot be victims or survivors.

If you are a cis-gendered man, consider exploring some of these opportunities here and throughout the portal.

“Prevention programs with a ‘‘gender-transformative’’ approach, or an explicit focus on questioning gender norms and expectations, show particular promise in achieving GBV prevention outcomes. Interventions targeting attitude and behaviour change, represent just one kind of approach within a heterogeneous collection of prevention efforts around the globe, which can also include community mobilization, policy change, and social activism”. (Casey et al, 2018. Gender Transformative Approaches to Engaging Men in Gender-Based Violence Prevention: A Review and Conceptual Model.)

Implicit Bias: Internalized Misogyny Activity

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This activity challenges participants to explore three different methods to unpacking implicit bias and internalized misogyny. This is a powerful step in prevention, a step towards recognizing privilege and understanding equity.

Try out the “Bias Correct” plug-in, either for yourself or for your workplace, an amazing tool that is open source for anyone to use. 

#BiasCorrect

Like spell-check but for gender bias, this tool helps users spot their unconscious biases in everyday conversations and empowers them to actively work against them.