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Gender equality and violence

Posted on the 28 June, 2012 at 9:23 pm Written by in Books

Who would think, that gender equality reduces violence in the home by almost two thirds. Not I. I thought the evidence would be mixed, in line with international research. Yet this result popped up, in my research, and would not go away, whatever variable I corrected for. Some findings are more important than others, and this is one of them.

A summary of the evidence, in Norwegian, here (2.7 mb): Likestilling og vold mot barn