Men can cook: Effectiveness of a men’s engagement intervention to change attitudes and behaviors in rural Ethiopia

Harold Alderman, Daniel Gilligan (), Melissa Hidrobo, Jessica Leight, Michael Mulford and Heleene Tambet

World Development, 2025, vol. 185, issue C

Abstract: Graduation model interventions seek to address multiple barriers constraining households’ exit from poverty, however, few explicitly target restrictive gender norms. Using a randomized controlled trial design, combined with three rounds of data, we investigate the impacts on gender equitable attitudes and behaviors of a graduation program that seeks to address multiple constraints for those in poverty and improve restrictive gender norms in Ethiopia. We find that at 1-year follow-up all treatment arms lead to improvements in men’s gender equitable attitudes and their engagement in household domestic tasks as reported by both men and women; but at 3-year follow-up, impacts are only sustained in the treatment arms that introduced men’s engagement groups after the 1-year follow-up survey to further promote improvements in equitable gender norms.

Keywords: Men’s engagement; Gender norms; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106781

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