<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><p style="float:left;width:733.188px;font-family:DomaineText;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-size:17px;color:rgb(70,70,70);line-height:27px;margin:20px 0px 15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Few women were seen addressing campaign crowds or depicted in party political posters in the lead-up to last weekend’s national election in Timor-Leste, formerly known as East Timor.</p><p style="float:left;width:733.188px;font-family:DomaineText;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-size:17px;color:rgb(70,70,70);line-height:27px;margin:20px 0px 15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">A political culture that enshrines male leadership resulted in men’s voices and images being at the forefront with little focus on women candidates.</p><p style="float:left;width:733.188px;font-family:DomaineText;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-size:17px;color:rgb(70,70,70);line-height:27px;margin:20px 0px 15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The young nation of Timor-Leste, formerly brutally ruled as part of Indonesia, is hardly alone on this score. And militarized masculinity in the political culture of Timor-Leste is not surprising given valorization of male heroes in the long pro-independence insurgency.</p><p style="float:left;width:733.188px;font-family:DomaineText;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-size:17px;color:rgb(70,70,70);line-height:27px;margin:20px 0px 15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Read more:</p><br></div><br clear="all"><div><a href="https://international.la-croix.com/news/it-s-time-for-women-to-lead-in-timor-leste/7603">https://international.la-croix.com/news/it-s-time-for-women-to-lead-in-timor-leste/7603</a><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><font style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif" size="2"><u><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255)">Sara L. Niner</span></u><br style="color:rgb(51,102,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255)">Australia 0417 357 298</span><br style="color:rgb(51,102,255)"></font><a href="http://saraniner.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255)">http://saraniner.blogspot.com</span></font>/</a></div>
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