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Mexico City to educate men on being domestic

11:42 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture| Family| Lifestyle| mexico · Comments Off

13 Mar 2007

As normal as it might seem to some of us here in the U.S., the concept of a man doing housework or taking care of kids is still unheard of in some parts of Latin America. Mexico City wants to change that, and mayor Marcelo Ebrard is inciting his government to kick off a “re-education” plan for men in his city:

…to make them participants in domestic work, such as caring for and raising their children.

“It’s about changing our mentality. We have to share work and responsibilities,” he said upon inaugurating the Equality in Gender Fair yesterday, part of the International Women’s Day festivities.

He said that above all this is important because society is not the same as 40 years ago, and now women in Mexico represent a third of the “economically active” population, and that number will grow in the next few years.

The mayor has ordered that the program — which will feature workshops, talks and courses for men, organized by the city’s Women’s Institute — begin in less than two weeks.

Via / La Jornada

Spanish city opens shelter for abused men

4:25 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family| Spain| society · Comments Off

20 Oct 2006

The Spanish city of León is opening up Spain’s first shelter for male victims of domestic violence, and “positive discrimination” (affirmative action), according to 20 Minutos. The center will also house men who are separated or divorced and having a hard time making it:

The first center will open in León, and the project has a budget of 1.5 million euros.

There are also plans to open other similar centers in Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Madrid, Murcia, Cádiz and Sevilla, depending on projects supported by various support groups for separated fathers throughout Spain.

According to the Centristas group, the organization in charge of the shelter, the centers will provide housing, legal help, professional development programs and a business center for residents.

Earlier this month, Spain’s constitutional tribunal admitted debate on whether or not domestic violence laws in the country discriminate against men.

A few Spanish sites are popping up on the internet which claim to support abused men and denounce feminism.

Meanwhile, to date, 59 women have died in Spain at the hands of their partner or ex partner this year.

Via / 20 Minutos and Instituto de la Mujer

Lazy “Latin” Machos

5:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture| Lifestyle| World| society · Comments Off

6 Mar 2006

A few weeks ago we were embroiled in an entertaining debate about the meaning of the word “Latino”. We never denied that people from Latin America are tied in origin to the people of “Latin” Europe — the mediterranean countries whose influence is most certainly evident in some Latin American customs and cultural idiosyncrasies.

So what does it mean when Spaniards and Italians are ranked as the laziest in the world (okay, in Europe) with regard to housework?

Italian men spend the least number of hours on housework (only 1.35 hours). But not for this reason are Italian households more messy; their female partnersare the Europeans that spend the most hours on housework, up to 5.20 hours.

Se apaga el “Fuego”

2:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Magazines| Marketing| Media · Comments Off

13 Feb 2006

Mala reported last week on a new men’s magazine — a “Maxim for Latinos” — called Fuego. Back in November, I applauded the publisher’s decision to serve a market that had been flatly ignored for so long. But in the blink of an eye, the fuego has been extinguished:

Fuego magazine, Harris Publications Inc.’s first foray into the Hispanic marketplace, has folded after less than one year.

A call left late Thursday at Harris was not returned.

Latino men to get an eyefull

3:24 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Lifestyle| Magazines · Comments Off

3 Nov 2005

Following in the steps of Maxim and FHM, a new wave of magazines aimed at the red-blooded Latino male are hitting newsstands:

On the cover of this fall’s Fuego, the quarterly magazine’s second issue, Colombian actress Paola Rey also stares enticingly at prospective buyers. She holds her cascading hair back with one hand and tucks the other ever so slightly in the folds of her saffron strapless swimsuit.

Only creative angles and dainty pieces of clothing separate these photos and the more explicit ones inside from the photos in these magazines’ X-rated counterparts. But this appears to be why King, aimed at African American men, and Fuego, aimed at Hispanic men, have been steadily building followers among young minority males who see them as alternatives to “lad” magazines such as Maxim, Stuff and FHM that feature mostly Caucasian women.

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