Exploring the links between gender stereotypes, children, and domestic violence
The following is a discussion on gender violence and children with Pauline Gomes and Urvashi Ghandi, gender experts at Breakthrough. Q: Where do gender stereotypes come from? Stereotypes stem from our understanding and perceptions of gender and roles. These often get translated into silent and not-so-silent messages. Frequently these messages are absorbed from behaviours that [...]
Indian victims of domestic violence in UK to get aid
Britain has changed immigration rules to ensure that migrant-spouses from India and other non-EU countries who become victims of domestic violence here are given access to public funds to help them escape abuse. Every year, many spouses holding Indian citizenship arrive in the UK to join their married partners, who are mostly British citizens of [...]
Rape as a weapon of war
By Natalie Wilson On October 11, PBS will kick off its new five-part series Women, War, and Peace, executive-produced by Abigail Disney, Gini Reticker and Pamela Hogan. I interviewed Peggy Kuo, a war-crimes prosecutor featured in I Came To Testify, the first segment to air, which focuses on the first-ever international criminal tribunal that addressed rape as a [...]
Considering economic abuse as domestic violence
Since October is domestic violence awareness month, we’d like to highlight a type of DV which is often overlooked: economic abuse. Most news stories and campaigns focus on physical, sexual and mental DV but economic violence can be just as damaging to an individual’s well-being. Economic domestic abuse can occur in any family dynamic, though [...]
For women, it’s still a long haul
If there is one takeaway from the World Bank’s 2012 World Development Report on gender equality and development, it is this: while gender equality matters in its own right, it also makes for smart economics. In other words, if women and girls are given the right opportunities, they can push up productivity and improve other [...]
