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Gender-based violence refers to any kind of violence directed against people due to their gender or gender identification, culture may have a role to play, being lower in egalitarianism societies and higher in patriarchal, misogynistic societies.
A UN report compiled from a number of different studies conducted in at least 71 countries found domestic violence against women to be most prevalent in Ethiopia. [103] A study by Pan American Health Organization conducted in 12 Latin American countries found the highest prevalence of domestic violence against women to be in Bolivia. [104]
Journal of Family Violence; Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences; Journal of Interpersonal Violence – publishes current "information on domestic violence, rape, child sexual abuse and other violent crimes." [62] Journal of Marital and Family Therapy [63] Journal of Marriage and the Family
Family violence is a broader term, often used to include child abuse, elder abuse, and other violent acts between family members. [28] [33] [34] In 1993, the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women defined domestic violence as:
These acts of violence include sexual assault, domestic violence, and sex trafficking. [36] The US Department of Justice found that 84% of Native American and Alaskan Native women have suffered some form of violence. [37] [38] This means Native women are 1.2 times more likely to experience violence than Non-Hispanic white women.
In this context, there is minimal acceptance and respect of young girls and women, and often an absence of family support. This results in a variety of context-specific versions of femicide and gender-based violence in the region: honor killings, acid attacks, witch-hunting, foeticide, and gender-based violence during caste and communal ...
The earliest empirical evidence of gender symmetry was presented in the 1975 U.S. National Family Violence Survey carried out by Murray A. Straus and Richard J. Gelles on a nationally representative sample of 2,146 "intact families." The survey found 11.6% of men and 12% of women had experienced some kind of IPV in the last twelve months, while ...
This category should not include violence where women happen to be the victims. Rather, it should only include acts of violence where the gender of the victim is an important determinant in them being selected for violence, when there is a gendered nature to the violence itself, or when it otherwise fits the definition in the literature of ...