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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jordyn Beazley

Labor pledges action as survey reveals how many young NSW men admit to sexually harassing women

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The survey, examining ‘what it means to be a man in Australia’, asked 1,200 men aged 18 to 30 a series of questions to shed light on how male attitudes towards masculinity influences domestic, family and sexual violence. Photograph: RooM the Agency/Alamy

More than a quarter of young New South Wales men who participated in a recent survey agreed that “men should use violence to get respect if necessary”, and over one-third admitted to sexually harassing a woman in the past month.

The findings came from the NSW Man Box report, commissioned by the Minns government and released on Monday.

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