Meghan MarkleandPrince Harryare proud parents toPrince ArchieandPrincess Lilibet, perhaps inspiring their support of a report on fatherhood today.
On Friday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’sArchewell Foundationshared Equimundo’s State of the World’s Fathers 2023reportalong with a message about why the research matters. The international nonprofit, which is dedicated to engaging men and boys in gender equality, polled over 12,000 people in 17 countries on caregiving and what bars equal participation between men and women.
“The 2023 data shows that men are increasingly involved in caregiving and would like to increase their care work at home, although deeply ingrained social norms and a lack of supportive policies and power structures discourage them from doing so," the Archewell Foundation said in astatement.
“The report recognizes care work as the bedrock of society, and calls for continued advancements towards gender equality. It also emphasizes the need for media representation that normalizes men’s caregiving roles,” it continued.
A shot of Prince Harry, Princess Lilibet, Prince Archie and Meghan Markle from the Netflix docuseries ‘Harry & Meghan.'.Netflix/Youtube
In the acknowledgments, Equimundo thanked Archewell for “generously” providing support for the research.
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Prince Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, have partnered with the nonprofit before. In November 2022, Archewellfundeda resource guide on positive masculinity for Equimundo, which reached 3,673 people in 122 countries.
Gender equity is a cause close to Harry and Meghan’s hearts, and the Duchess of Sussexspoke about howher husband is a feminist while visiting Wales in January 2018.
Well-wisher Jessica Phillips was among those who came to see the newly-engaged couple at Cardiff Castle and told Meghan how she admired her outspoken views on women’s rights and feminism.
“He’s a feminist too, so there’s that,” Meghan told of Philips of her then-fiancé.
Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.Netflix; Misan Harriman
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Meghan and Harry would go on to welcome son Archie, now 4, in May 2019 and daughter Lilibet, now 2, in June 2021. The Duchess of Sussexpreviously saidthat her husband’s bond with their son inspired her to writeThe Bench, her children’s book about the bond between fathers and sons, published a few days after Lili was born.
“The Bench started as a poem I wrote for my husband on Father’s Day, the month after Archie was born,” Meghan said in a press release from publisher Random House Children’s Books. “That poem became this story.”
Inconversation with PEOPLEabout his memoirSpare, published in January, Prince Harry said he most identifies with his family roles today.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex speak onstage during Global Citizen Live in 2021.Theo Wargo/Getty
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