This study explores emerging opportunities for social transformation in the context of sedimented layers of male privilege and the questioning of restrictive gender norms in two Iraqi governorates. Among the promising pathways for change are awareness-raising activities with male allies, alongside other longer-term efforts advancing transformative change in attitudes, practices, and behaviors.

Based on a survey of practitioners working across conservation projects, the findings in this paper demonstrate the importance of both external drivers (funding requirements) and a supportive environment (capacity building, technical, and financial support) in incentivizing a focus on gender in the conservation sphere.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a source of stress and have important mental health implications for all persons but may have unique implications for men. This paper discusses considerations for intervening in men’s mental health during and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including current technology-based cyberpsychology options.

Although intimate partner violence (IPV) is inherently a relational event shaped by couple-level factors, most empirical examinations of IPV-related attitudes have used individuals as the unit of analysis. There, the researchers explain applying a dyadic perspective to the study of attitudes about the acceptability of IPV, harnessing couple-level data from 33 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

This article details the results of original research conducted in Uganda to identify the nature, contributors, dynamics, and consequences of sexual harassment in public health sector workplaces. The Uganda Ministry of Health used the study’s results to develop the gender-transformative "Guidelines to Implement the Policy on Prevention and Response to Sexual Harassment."

This article presents the results of a qualitative study on the context and different forms of violence committed against women and girls in South Sudan. The study documents many forms of sexual and physical violence against women and girls in South Sudan, including conflict-related sexual violence, intimate partner violence, nonpartner sexual violence, child and forced marriage, and abduction.