A methodological journey towards integrating a gender perspective into the measurement of violence against women and intimate partner violence
Julien Chevillard, Lavinia Gianettoni & Véronique Jaquier Erard
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Over the past 40 years, violence against women has been the subject
of a multi-disciplinary dialogue regarding its nature, origins, and
“true numbers,” as illustrated by the increasing number of
publications on the issue. This debate has focused on how violence
against women compares to other forms of interpersonal violence and
how individual victimization experiences are to be understood in the
broader system of hierarchical gender relations and inequalities.
Most importantly, scholars struggled to integrate sociocultural
factors into measurement tools that individualize or
decontextualize violent behaviors. This debate has been tightly
intertwined with—and fostered by—the collection of an increasing
amount of empirical data, although several gaps remain. In this
contribution, we review some of the specifics of gender-based
violence: how it is defined, operationalized, and ultimately
measured through various types of prevalence studies. We briefly
describe the development of dedicated violence against women
surveys, and how international efforts contributed to the
dissemination of best practices and survey guidelines. With this in
mind, we reflect on the current state of research on violence
against women and intimate partner violence in Switzerland and
highlight promising avenues for further developing rigorous
gender-based violence prevalence studies building on the
state-of-the-art international expertise. |
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| Citation | Chevillard Julien / Gianettoni Lavinia / Jaquier Erard Véronique, A methodological journey towards integrating a gender perspective into the measurement of violence against women and intimate partner violence, FORS, 2016. |
| Type | Working paper (Anglais) |
| Année | 2016 |
| Institution | FORS |
| URL | http://forscenter.ch/de/forschung-publikationen-projekte/... |