Fighting Violence Against Women: Laws, Norms &amp; Challenges Ahead

Htun, Mala; Jensenius, Francesca R.

doi:10.1162/daed_a_01779

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“…First, many try to explain why women's positions in society remain subordinate to men and how they might advance in order to bring about greater social justice (Htun and Weldon 2018). Others highlight the ways in which women disproportionately bear the burdens of underdevelopment and suffer the consequences of poverty, disease, and violence (Momsen 1991;Htun and Jensenius 2020). Indeed, it is now taken as a truism that female empowerment is not just intrinsically valuable but that it promotes development, particularly by redirecting the allocation of resources towards enhanced capabilities that may drive endogenous economic and political change (Hossain, Asadullah, and Kambhampati 2019).…”

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Does Empowering Women in Politics Boost Human Development? An Empirical Analysis, 1960–2018

Hornset

Soysa

2021

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

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Does the political empowerment of women increase human development? Using equality of access to schooling and health as indicators of pro-poor development policy and objective measures of female school completion and child mortality under the age of five as measures of human capital development, pooled ordinary least square (OLS) fixed effects regressions show robustly that the political empowerment of women associates positively with higher human capital. These results are statistically significant and substantively large, and the effects of gender empowerment trump those of democracy and good governance. Since the political empowerment of women is driven by structural conditions underlying democracy and economic development, the independent effect of gender empowerment relative to effects of democracy and institutional quality suggests a powerful role for the former. Interactions between gender empowerment and factors associated with higher child mortality; namely, strict autocracy and the Middle East and North Africa region, suggest that empowerment conditions these known adverse factors in the direction of lower child mortality. For addressing endogeneity, we use 10-and 20-year lagged values of gender empowerment as instruments for current empowerment, which pass both instrument relevance and instrument exclusion criteria. Two-stage least square regressions confirm our basic results. While the causal effects of gender empowerment remain somewhat speculative, a barrage of tests on our data suggests a powerful role for gender empowerment for increasing human capital.

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Does Empowering Women in Politics Boost Human Development? An Empirical Analysis, 1960–2018

Hornset

Soysa

2021

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

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“…[ 25 ] The inability of screening tools to identify proscribed abusive behaviors diminishes the chances of women's grievances being taken seriously and avail help from authorities, family members and peers. [ 26 ]…”

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Intimate partner violence in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Ubaidi¹,

Tawfeeq

Ayed³

et al. 2021

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care

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Background and Objectives: Women can experience physical abuse, mental, sexual abuse, or even controlling behavior throughout their partnership lifecycle, which must be prevented and curtailed at the early stages. Therefore, this study explores intimate partner violence (IPV) prevalence among Bahraini women, predictors of IPV, and reliability of the Women Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) questionnaire in IPV against women. Methods: The current prospective cross-sectional study included 810 Bahraini women meeting the inclusion criteria, who were asked to share any IPV experience witnessed during their marriage. A questionnaire comprising of 25 questions, including those of WAST-short and WAST-long, was used. The reliability of the screening tools was determined using Cronbach's alpha test. Results: The prevalence of IPV among Bahraini was found to be 71.11%. During pregnancy, husbands' violent behavior towards family members, relatives or friends; escalation of violence; substance abuse; general antisocial behavior; criminality and mental health issues were significantly associated with IPV ( P < 0.001). Relationship problems with the husband, individual behavior of women supporting violence, and history of violence from other family members were significantly associated with abuse ( P < 0.05). WAST-short was shown to have a sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 18.8%. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the full questionnaire, WAST-short and WAST-long were 0.82, 0.76, and 0.84, respectively. Conclusion: Determination of IPV is an outcome of the victim and abuser's psychosocial behaviors, and WAST-short must be complemented with WAST-long for accurate findings. Concerted efforts towards anger management and rehabilitation of the victim and abuser are imperative to end the IPV cycle.

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“…Unless domestic violence becomes socially unacceptable, legal prohibition cannot prevent its widespread occurrence. Between 1990 and 2010, a wave of countries enacted laws against domestic violence for the first time, but they have only half-heartedly been enforced where it is socially accepted (Htun and Jensenius 2019).…”

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Participatory Theater Empowers Women: Evidence from India

Hoff¹,

Jalan²,

Santra³

2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Fighting Violence Against Women: Laws, Norms & Challenges Ahead

Cited by 34 publications

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Does Empowering Women in Politics Boost Human Development? An Empirical Analysis, 1960–2018

Does Empowering Women in Politics Boost Human Development? An Empirical Analysis, 1960–2018

Intimate partner violence in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Participatory Theater Empowers Women: Evidence from India

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