Africa/Global: Men must be mobilized in struggle for gender equality, UN commission agrees

The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women has wrapped up its annual session with broad agreement on the need to involve men in the struggle for gender equality. At the close of its two-week session, the 45-member panel adopted an informal paper synthesizing the conclusions of discussions on the issue, which concluded that real change requires overcoming stereotypical attitudes which inhibit women's advancement and impede efforts to achieve gender equality.