Policies and interventions to prevent and address incidences of interpersonal violence, therefore, need to understand the "causes of the causes" that create and maintain gender inequities and gender domination, which put women at a greater risk of violence, abuse or harm from intimate men.
Fordham's business school does exceptionally well in maintaining a gender balance in its classrooms.
Our data suggests that women, both new mothers and senior women such as mother-in-laws, can be complicit in maintaining strict gender divisions and generational power dynamics that prevent men from increasing their involvement.
Although the law was seen as a milestone in the fight for women's rights in Tanzania in 1971, it has also been widely criticized for maintaining certain gender discriminatory social practices such as polygamy for men and different marriage ages for men and women (32).
Evangelicals preach about maintaining gender roles and American family values whilst deliberately ignoring that the values they uphold on gender is part of the reason someone like Roy Moore is able to wander through life grooming minors and come out unscathed.
{FGD 4} The sub-category Gender norms in transition emerged when men started to reflect on their current role in maintaining gender norms that justify violence.
But if there's a lesson to be taken away from the CSW negotiation process, it's that governments and groups from diverse corners of the world have a vested interest in maintaining gender inequality.
This questions the role of education, and in particular the role of the school in maintaining gender inequalities, and in the orientation process.
When external constraints disappear, internal discipline becomes a powerful tool for maintaining the traditional gender order.
My prayer is that in the process of completing phase three, serious thought will be given not only to how to best assist evangelical institutions in maintaining gender equity, but also how to best assist women of color in leadership who face particular challenges and who are woefully underrepresented.
