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 …

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 …

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 a one standard deviation increase in sexual crimes per 1000 women …

violence with all patients, and referral of women disclosing violence to an on-site advocacy service. An “assumption querying …This paper reports on an evaluation of a domestic violence intervention in the maternity and sexual health services of … service providers and patients, review of patient records, and pre- and post-training questionnaires. Domestic violence …

effects of sexual violence on the emotional, mental and physical health of women and children (Herman 1992; Perry 2006). I aim … to expand this discussion by labeling sexual violence as a specific form of oppression and to explore the political … implications of this specific oppression, focusing on sexual violence as a unique type of societal marginalization. Finally, I …

This paper analyses how concepts of gender, sexual violence and women functioned within the 1999 Guatemalan Commission … Commission presents data about sexual violence without a more broadly integrated gender analysis, it fails to recognise … indigenous women, or their claims, as political and thus reinforces their marginality. I situate this report in the context of …

Sexual violence has long been a problem on college campuses, yet federal policies to protect students have largely been … Amendments of 1972.These investigations focus attention on specific colleges' responses to cases of sexual violence and raise the … the implications of these investigations on college enrollment, particularly for women. We combine institution-level panel …

The reach of violence against women (VAW) has been profoundly felt by women across the United States and around the … occurs, in what forms, and to whom. This review defines violence against women in its variant forms and examines the …'s response to the complex needs of women suffering battering, rape, stalking, and psychological aggression is also examined. The …