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Measuring the psychological drivers of participation in collective action to address violence against women in Mumbai, India [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

open access: yesWellcome Open Research, 2020
Background: A growing number of global health interventions involve community members in activism to prevent violence against women (VAW), but the psychological drivers of participation are presently ill-understood. We developed a new scale for measuring
Lu Gram   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using Participatory Learning and Action in a Community-Based Intervention to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls in Mumbai’s Informal Settlements

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2020
For over 3 decades, participatory learning and action (PLA) techniques have been prominent in formative and evaluative studies in community-based development programs in the Global South.
Proshant Chakraborty   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring the psychological drivers of participation in collective action to address violence against women in Mumbai, India [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

open access: yesWellcome Open Research, 2020
Background: A growing number of global health interventions involve community members in activism to prevent violence against women (VAW), but the psychological drivers of participation are presently ill-understood. We developed a new scale for measuring
Lu Gram   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Violence against Women at Work

open access: yesThe Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022
Abstract We link every police report in Finland to administrative data to identify violence between colleagues and the economic consequences for victims, perpetrators, and firms. This new approach to observe when one colleague attacks another overcomes previous data constraints limiting evidence on this phenomenon to self-reported ...
Adams-Prassl, A   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Violence against Canadian Women [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2004
HEALTH ISSUE: Exposure to violence as children or as adults places a woman at higher risk of poor health outcomes, both physical and psychological. Abused women use more health care services and have poorer social functioning than non-abused women. Knowledge of the prevalence of violence against women, and of which women are at risk, should assist in ...
Maclean Heather, Cohen Marsha M
openaire   +3 more sources

Estimating the costs of gender-based violence in the European Union [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The purpose of the study is to identify and recommend appropriate methodologies to measure the cost of gender-based and intimate partner violence in EU-28 Member States.
European Institute of Gender Equality (EIGE)   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Prevalence of domestic violence against women in informal settlements in Mumbai, India: a cross-sectional survey

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Domestic violence against women harms individuals, families, communities and society. Perpetrated by intimate partners or other family members, its overlapping forms include physical, sexual and emotional violence, control and neglect.
Lu Gram   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Freedom-deprived women: social representations of prison, violence, and their consequences [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020
Objective: To understand the social representations that women deprived of their freedom have of imprisonment, violence, and their consequences. Method: An exploratory-descriptive qualitative study with 15 women from a female penitentiary in the State ...
Zeyne Alves Pires Scherer   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Domestic violence against women [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1995
Two abused women were recently freed from prison in Britain. Emma Humphreys and Sara Thornton had previously been found guilty of murdering violent partners and had received mandatory life sentences. Humphreys's conviction was quashed by judges in the Court of Appeal, whose ruling recognised the months of cruelty she had experienced from her boyfriend,
J, Richardson, G, Feder
openaire   +2 more sources

Access to Justice For Women: India's Response to Sexual Violence in Conflict and Social Upheaval [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A 2014 report by the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women on gender-based crimes describes the female experience in India as consisting of a "continuum of violence...from the 'womb to the tomb.'" According to Indian government data, a woman is ...
Angana P. Chatterji   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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