When men in an Indonesian village discovered the staggering imbalance in daily workloads between them and the women, their surprise helped to stir a change in attitudes, sparking hope for broader societal change.
The daily-task exercise revealed that men spent about five hours a day working in the field, while women worked more than twice that amount of time preparing meals, collecting wood and water, looking after children, washing, and tending to crops. “This realisation helped the men understand why women need equal opportunities”, said Linda Yuliani, a scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF).
Yuliani presented these findings during the workshop “Gender, Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) in Forestry/Agroforestry Projects: Workshopping tools for change,” an official side event of the Forests & Livelihoods Assessment, Research, and Engagement (FLARE) annual meeting in Rome in October 2024.
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