such as social norms, relationships, values, culture, beliefs and experiences, and to
encourage stakeholders to participate with one another. The team also carried out a number
of small, targeted reviews providing concise quantitative data on a number of issues so as to
test them with a broader audience.
A note on terminology
ARTICLE 19 did not seek to identify participants according to any assumption of their
gender identity, or to restrict gender into two binary opposite categories of man and woman.
However, the majority of key participants chose to define themselves as women. A smaller
number defined themselves using other third gender types. As a result, most references in
the report refer to women. Where issues relate to third genders, we have explicitly
referenced them.
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