Educational empowerment: a catalyst for eradicating domestic violence
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2024-05-08
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Київський національний економічний університет імені Вадима Гетьмана
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The amalgamation of survey and qualitative data yields crucial insights into women’s experiences of violence across socio-demographic groups and geographic areas. Furthermore, it fills notable data gaps that have impeded efforts to combat VAW in Georgia. Over the past 12 months, 18.2% of women experienced various forms of violence: sexual harassment (9.7%), stalking (1.6%), non-partner sexual violence since the age of 15 (0.0%), non-partner physical violence since the age of 15 (0.5%), and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) (9.3%). Analyzing lifetime prevalence reveals a much higher figure, with 50.1% of women experiencing one or more of the seven types of VAW measured in the survey.
Among the surveyed participants, the majority possessed at least an upper secondary education. Breaking down the data, 34.7% of women and 46.0% of men held an upper secondary education, 22.8% of women and 15.2% of men had completed vocational education, and 32.9% of women and 29.8% of men had attained a university education. A minor proportion, at 8.5%, of both women and men respondents had a lower secondary education, and less than 1% had a primary education or less.
Notably, women with a primary education or less, as well as those with a lower secondary education, exhibited a higher likelihood of reporting experiences of child sexual abuse at 15.8% and 13.7%, respectively, compared to women with an upper secondary education or higher. Furthermore, women from economically poor and very poor households were more prone to reporting child sexual abuse experiences at rates of 12.6% and 10.3%, respectively, in contrast to those from households with a good economic status (7.5%). Additionally, women residing in capital city were more inclined to report incidents of child sexual abuse (12.2%) compared to women in other urban areas (7.0%) and rural areas (6.6%).
Indicates that women with a university education had the highest likelihood of ever experiencing sexual harassment (36.0%). Notably, women with a university education were considerably more prone to experiencing sexual harassment compared to those with vocational education (14.6%), upper secondary education (21.8%), lower secondary education (18.8%), or primary education or less (15.0%).
According to data, men with a university education demonstrated the lowest tendency to endorse traditional gender roles, with 61.3% believing that a woman's primary role is to take care of her family, 70.1% supporting the idea that a man should control and preside over the household, and 28.8% asserting that a wife should unquestioningly agree with or obey her husband's opinion, even if she disagrees with him.
Further analysis indicated that women with a university education exhibited the least inclination to believe that violence between a husband and wife is a private matter and that others should not intervene (12.8%), that a woman should be ashamed or embarrassed to talk to anyone outside of her family about her husband physically hurting or controlling her (5.6%), and that a woman should tolerate some violence to keep her family together (2.1%).
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statistics, gender, VaW, education, survey
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Charekishvili L. Educational empowerment: a catalyst for eradicating domestic violence [Електронний ресурс] / Lia Charekishvili // Стратегічні імперативи сучасного менеджменту : зб. матеріалів VІІ Міжнар. наук.-практ. конф. (8 трав. 2024 р.) / М-во освіти і науки України, Київ. нац. екон. ун-т ім. Вадима Гетьмана ; [орг. ком.: Д. Лук’яненко (голова та ін.]. – Електрон. текст. дані. – Київ : КНЕУ, 2024. – С. 419–422. – Назва з титул. екрану.