<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dear TLSA Colleagues</div><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>Please find a newly published article about masculinity in Timor-Leste.</div><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div>Attitudes and Perceptions of Young Men towards Gender Equality and Violence in Timor-Leste<div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">",</div> <i>Journal of International Women's Studies</i>, 16(2) (2015), 312-329. <br></div> <div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Available at: <a href="http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol16/iss2/20" target="_blank">http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol16/iss2/20</a><br></div><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><h4>Abstract</h4><p>This article examines attitudes and perceptions of young men toward gender relations and gender-based violence in post-conflict Timor-Leste. A high level of domestic violence is reported and a law against domestic violence has been passed in recent years. In 2013, a research team surveyed almost 500 young men using the Gender-Equitable Men (GEM) Scale in both rural and urban contexts. It was found that young men become less gender equitable as they get older, and the environment they grow up in influences their gender attitudes. Existing contradictions and tensions between national government policy and local customary practices are well-known, and these are reflected in young men’s acceptance of general principles of gender equality, which is unmatched by their willingness to accept more equitable gender relations in their own lives. Of concern was the level of young men’s acceptance of sexual harassment and forced sex. Mechanisms are required to influence young men’s attitudes to gender equality and intimate partner relations in school programs and other arenas as a priority.</p></div><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The published Final Report of this research can be found here:<b> 2013 Baseline Study: Attitudes and perceptions on gender and masculinities of youth in Timor-Leste</b> <a href="http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/sara-niner/baseline-study-2013-research-study-young-gender-equitable-men/" target="_blank">http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/sara-niner/baseline-study-2013-research-study-young-gender-equitable-men/</a>For more information please go to:</div><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">A new study of masculinities in Timor-Leste</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"> <a href="http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/sara-niner/masculinities-research/" target="_blank">http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/sara-niner/masculinities-research/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">A recording of a public Seminar we held last year on </span><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Masculinity and links to gender inequality and violence in Timor-Leste & Indonesia</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"> <a href="http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/sara-niner/masculinity-and-links-to-gender-inequality-and-violence-in-timor-leste-indonesia/" target="_blank">http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/sara-niner/masculinity-and-links-to-gender-inequality-and-violence-in-timor-leste-indonesia/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Please contact me if you have any questions about this work or would like to collaborate</span></p><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">. </div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">I will be in East Timor in March and July for research work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">All best wishes, Sara</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"> </span></p><div style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)">Dr. Sara Niner</span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)"> Lecturer & Researcher </span><br>
<b><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)">Monash University </span></b><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span>|</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240);font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"> School
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<p><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);line-height:115%;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";font-size:9pt">Monash
University's Australian campuses are proudly on Kulin land. Monash University acknowledges and
pays respects to the Kulin people, including elders past and present.</span></p></div></div><span><font color="#888888">
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