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Gender equality efforts can't work without men, experts urge

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Participants during FEMNET's three-day workshop. [Beryl Ringos, Standard]

Every so often, someone is grumbling about how women's and girl's empowerment initiatives are "too much" and how the issues of the boy child are getting neglected.

Well, the journey to gender equality is taking a turn - the world is realising that men and women come together to ensure there is equity in economic, social and political spheres.

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