The story of the “now-women”: changing gender norms in rural West Africa

Beniamino Cislaghi

Development in Practice, 2018, vol. 28, issue 2, 257-268

Abstract: This article offers a qualitative investigation of how human rights education sessions, embedded in a multi-faceted intervention, helped members of a rural community in West Africa challenge inequitable gender norms that hindered women’s political participation. Results show a change in women’s political participation and community members’ descriptions of women’s potential. Three features of the intervention contributed to this change: (1) its pedagogical approach; (2) its substantive content; and (3) the engagement of men and women together. The article calls for interventions that facilitate sustained dialogue between men and women to achieve greater gender equity.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2018.1420139

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