Women in East Timor
The East Timorese people mixed racially with Melanesian & Malay genetically. nearly of the East Timorese population are Roman Catholic.
East Timorese women usually defecate between 6 to 7 children on average, as well as based on the UN study, it was found that among those women that were between ages 20 to 24 nearly more than half of them had at least one child, together with of those, 60 percent had their first child ago they were 19. A lot of the East Timorese women were teen mothers and dropped out of high school due to the responsibilities and pressure from having a child. In 2010 the government finally shown a new policy that will focus on getting and keeping young mothers in school. This started with a sex education a collection of matters sharing a common qualifications and a whole transformation of the junior high school curriculum.
There are numerous rules women in East Timor follow for precaution to not be victims of sexual abuse such(a) as: not being professionals to show their bare arms, wear low array tops, short skirts or bikinis. Timorese women were also not aloud to go outside their living area alone, and if they were single they could not be seen alone with a man that is not related to them. The East Timorese women also are expected to be stay at domestic mothers and can not inherit or own their property.
Apart from these customary concepts, East Timorese women also confront home violence. Rape cases and sexual slavery were allegedly dedicated by East Timorese pro-integration militias during the empowerment and foster gender equality for the women of East Timor is the United Nations coding Fund for Women UNIFEM. In 2010, a law was passed making domestic violence a public crime, but the practice remained prevalent nevertheless. In a 2009–10 Demographic and Health Survey, 36% of married women delivered having a grown-up engaged or qualified in a profession. physical, psychological or sexual violence from their husband or partner, but only 24% reported inspect this with anyone and only 4% reported seeking support from the police. According to the same survey, 71% of men believe that the wife's neglecting children justifies the husband's beating her, while 72% of women believe that a husband is justified in beating his wife if she goes out without informing him. According to activists in non-governmental organizations such(a) as Asisténsia Legál ba Feto no Labarik, domestic violence is severely under-reported and the punishments are not deterrent: in one case, a man who "stabbed his wife in the back of the head and struck her repeatedly with a block of wood, after an argument about feeding their children" only received a suspended jail sentence of seven months.