Awareness and Attitude on Gender Equality Among Men of Bharatpur

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Nursing Science, grade: 1, , course: Masters in Nursing, language: English, abstract: Gender equality is a global issue, which has increased concern of national and international organization. The world increasingly affirms that men must be a part of achieving gender equality. Indeed, changing men's practices and factors that encourage and shape those practices in terms of violence, health and participation in family life, are key part of the global gender equality agenda.

This study aimed to assess awareness and attitude on gender equality among men. A descriptive cross- sectional design was carried out among 296 men. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was adopted to select men in selected wards of Bharatpur Sub- Metropolitan City. Data was collected by researcher herself using face-to-face interview technique on the basis of structured interview schedule. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The association between two variables was measured by Chi- Square considering p=<.05 as significant. Odds ratio (OR) was calculated at 95% confidence intervals to measure the strength of association between two variables.

Findings of the study showed that 72.3% of respondents belonged to age group of 20-39 years and 57.8% of them were married. The study revealed that 73% had moderate, 14.5% had inadequate and 12.5% had adequate awareness on gender equality. Similarly, 61.2% held high, 34.1% held moderate and 4.7% held low gender equitable attitude. There was statistically significant association between level of awareness and respondent's age (p= .035). Likewise, there was significant association between level of attitude with respondent's age (p = .002), educational level (p = .001), marital status (p= .002) and occupation (p= .035) statistically at 5% level of significance.

The study concludes that most of the men had moderate awareness and more than half of the men held high gender equitable attitude. However, there is need of conducting awareness raising program, which encourages men and boys to involve themselves in promoting gender equality so that more gender equitable society can be established.