South Africa: Men fear they will lose power

Shavon Pulley/ April 3, 2008/ Gender Issues

http://allafrica.com/stories/200704260849.html

In my last article I was trying to keep track of the group for women in Russia and how they were going to form this group and make it work. Inforuntalry, there was no article this week on this subject. So, I went back to Africa, and found some news dealing with men.
One in four women in an abusive relationship, a woman killed approximately every week by her close male partner: these figures comes from People Opposing Women Abuse, a Johannesburg-based non-profit, indicate the extent of the problem posed by gender-related violence in South Africa. Many groups are working together to change these type situations. Men as Partners (MAP), a global programme pioneered by Engender Health that was introduced about a decade ago in South Africa in collaboration with the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa to name a few. These groups join together and focus on traditional roles for men and women, amongst others, as well as male and female perspectives on gender stereotypes. In one interview they believed that children can inflict with violence as young as four years old. Starting to redirect them that young can change the way they feel about violence. Many groups offer counseling and one on one support groups for men to express their anger and other things that lead to their violence. These women are trying to get away from the traditional roles and men are frustrated with the situation and want to do something about it. I think this is an awesome article because these men are trying to do something about their anger and frustrations. They seem to want to help themselves and their women become better people. The men want to learn how to control their anger and the women want to have a different role in life besides the traditional homemaker. In South America, the people are tyring to stop the gender inequailty amongest themselves and do something to help both genders.