Using a new measure of the strength of gender stereotypes defined at the individual level and based on responses to a … survey conducted with more than 4,500 Italian women in July 2020, we show that women with stronger stereotypes are more … likely to state that they know a victim of violence but are not more likely to state that violence (physical or psychological …

We develop a scale of severity of violence against women based on fuzzy set theory. The scale can be used to derive … scale and three widely used alternatives - the Conflict Tactic Scale, The Severity of Violence Against Women Scale and the … fuzzy indexes of violence which account for the prevalence, frequency and severity of violence. Using the results of the …

In this paper we analyze the factors that explain attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in … the international ones: approval of IPVAW is higher among women, people in rural areas, people in a disadvantaged socio … equal gender outcomes. It decreases with internet access and, with a lesser degree of robustness, with the time elapsed …

This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a …, increasing the salience of gender distinctions and existing gender norms which legitimize gendered violence. … statistically significant relationship between gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross …

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed-effects strategy … approach and a border analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional sexual crime per 1000 women in a district reduces the …

gender roles, and also because it is likely to increase men's likelihood of using domestic violence as an instrument. Our … findings suggest that policies that seek to empower women and promote gender equality might paradoxically increase women … that of her husband's - causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India. Identifying the causal effect of …

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on … the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades …. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We …

against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …. The only aspect of violence not affected by spouse's education is sexual violence. Schooling also lowers the likelihood … behaviours such as drinking, gambling, and drug abuse. We also find that women whose mothers or whose husbands’ mothers …

Contraception is a crucial tool that empowers women to control their bodily autonomy. Concurrently, violence against … women remains a pressing public-health issue depleting women's autonomy. We establish a causal link between the decision to … use contraception and the occurrence of intimate partner violence. Utilizing newly available nationally representative …

colonialism on several drivers of women empowerment including education, fertility, marital age, gender norms, etc. While our …This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women … colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy, we find that women who live in areas that were …