| dc.description.abstract | The International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES)
is a comprehensive, multi-country study on men’s realities,
practices, and attitudes toward gender norms, gender equality
policies, household dynamics, caregiving and involvement as
fathers, intimate partner violence, sexual diversity, and health
and economic stress, among other topics. Promundo and the
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) created
IMAGES and have coordinated its use in 16 countries as of 2016.
Additional partner studies inspired by IMAGES have been carried
out in Asia by the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP). This study adapted IMAGES to focus on the dynamics
of gender, masculinities, violence, and nonviolence amidst settings
of urban violence.
The survey includes both women and men respondents aged
18 to 59. Women are asked both about their own realities and
about their male partners. In keeping with World Health Organization
recommendations for survey research about sexual and
gender-based violence, the survey engages men and women in
the same communities but not in the same households. All ethical
procedures are followed. The survey is carried out together
with qualitative research to map masculinities, contextualize the
survey results, and provide detailed life histories that illuminate
quantitative key findings. In conflict and post-conflict settings
and settings of high urban violence, the IMAGES questionnaire
includes additional questions on the effects of conflict, urban
violence, and displacement on gender relations. | en_US |
