This study presents the findings of the survey done by using the methodology of IMAGES studies on men, which has been applied in more than 20 countries and territories in the world. Read more…

The following analysis is largely based on the results of the survey, i.e. the quantitative indicators related to the position, attitudes and behaviours of men in Serbia. But before the results, we present some of the voices of men gathered in the process of qualitative analysis, primarily as an illustration of many different ideological and personal positions, different discourses and attitudes. These attitudes reveal a high complexity of the transformation of the gender regime in Serbia and its social context as a whole. Read more…

IMAGES studies were launched in 2008 by Promundo and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) as globally applicable surveys that can be conducted continuously. Studies have been conducted in more than 20 countries and territories. In our region, these studies have been carried out in Croatia (Bjelić, 2011), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dušanić, 2012) and Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) (Limani et al. 2017). Read more…

The IMAGES study conducted in Serbia is based on three important theoretical pillars. Read more…

Serbia is at a kind of double beginning. On the one hand, different public policies are not properly gender-based (Antonijević, 2018), while on the other hand, men are insufficiently visible as gendered citizens, gendered individuals.  Read more…

The research was based on a nationally representative sample, which included 1,060 men and 540 women. Over half of respondents have secondary school education (54.5% of men and 50.7% of women). Read more…

Most respondents come from the families where both mothers and fathers have secondary education. The education of the parents decreases with the respondents’ age. The fathers of more than 15% of respondents have junior college or university education, while over 30% of respondents have such a level of education, which shows certain social progress. Read more…

The majority of both men and women answer that they have never experienced violence in their parental families. However, the frequency of the response “never” leaves enough room for the presence of domestic violence. Read more…

As in all other cases, the majority of male or female partners have secondary school education. Nearly every second man in the sample has a partner with secondary education, and the partner of every fourth man has junior college or university education. Read more…

Only a very small percentage of men attend the birth of their child (2.4%). The largest number of future fathers wait for the result of pregnancy at home or in the waiting room of the maternity ward. Read more…

Over 90% of men and women identify themselves as heterosexual (92.6%). Men preferred not to answer more often than women, and more rarely declared themselves to be homosexual. Read more…

The answers to the questions about the prevalence of various forms of partner violence show that the most common form of violence are insults and humiliation, committed by nearly one-third of men against their partners. In one-fourth of cases, men deliberately intimidated their partners. Read more…

Over three-fourths of men, as well as women, are satisfied with their physical and mental health. There are minimum differences regarding the engagement in physical activities that help maintain good health (slightly more men than women are engaged in such activities). Read more…

Asked whether they participated in the wars in the former Yugoslavia, 15.9% of men from the sample answered affirmatively. However, if we disregard those under 40, who make up over half of the entire sample, it means that nearly one-third of men over 40 participated in the war. Read more…

Gender identity is one of identities, and it is related to other identities, most often to the national/ethnic one. Men express a higher level of agreement than women with the statement that their ethnicity is important to them. Read more…

The examination of attitudes by using the GEM scale shows that women have less conservative attitudes towards gender equality than men. However, both men and women have the most conservative attitudes about the man needing to be strong and (stable) support. Read more…

Why would a man be a different person than a woman? They can be persons with the same duties and obligations. What limits them is biology, and that’s it. But we are the same in social life. I think that the basic thing that determined me in that period was my perception of a person as a person, not as a man or a woman. Perhaps I was raised up that way. I do not divide people into men and women. (An activist) Read more…

Men in Serbia, as shown by this research, undergo changes, express resistances to these changes and face new challenges. Changes towards the establishment of gender equality are profound and inevitable.  Read more…

The area of ​​critical studies of men and masculinities is underdeveloped in Serbia, while the field of research on men and their ”representation” as well as public discourse on gender equality are increasingly overtaken by right-wing researchers and theoreticians with clear antifeminist positions, misogynous views and negative attitude towards the gender equality agenda.  Read more…

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