Pathways to Gender Equitable Men: Reflections on Findings from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey

This article reflects on the findings of the International Men and Gender Equality survey through the lens of contemporary South African contexts of change. While huge strides have been made toward gender justice in South Africa since 1994, there are many indications, including high rates of gender-based violence, that inequalities on the basis of gender intersected with other forms of inequality persist. Further, some research illustrates a growing resistance among men and women to gender justice policies and measures. The article argues that far more work is required in South Africa to shift both men and women’s perceptions of the value of gender jus-tice for boys and men, and in facilitating a more authentic investment for boys and men in their own and social change. It also points to how much of the current scho-larship on men and boys focuses on ‘‘problems’ ’ that reproduces a negative con-struction of certain groups of boys and men that is also raced and classed. I