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How men in Latin America are unlearning machismo

How men in Latin America are unlearning machismo

In early 2019, the Colombian women’s soccer team publicized the fact that they had not had a match or a head coach for seven months, while the prized men’s team experienced no such slights. The force driving each of these cases is machismo, an attitude ingrained in nearly every facet of Colombian society. A survey by the European Union found that 70% of Colombians are “moderately machista.”