- "Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), are violent acts primarily or exclusively committed by men or boys against women or girls."
The experiences and struggles of women, such as misogyny, sexism, sexual harassment, and violence against women.
Patriarchy: A social system in which men hold primary power and predominance over political, economic, social, and cultural values.
Gender roles: Gender roles refer to the perceived distinct, socially constructed roles that people of different genders are expected to perform in society.
Intersectionality: Intersectionality is the view that social identities like race, class, gender, and sexual orientation overlap and interact with each other.
Sexism: The prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination against people based on their sex or gender.
Women's suffrage: The movement to secure the right for women to vote in elections and participate in the political process.
Feminism: The pursuit of gender equality, advocating for women's rights, and challenging various forms of gender-based discrimination.
Reproductive rights: The rights of individuals to control their reproductive choices, including the ability to access healthcare, birth control, and safe and legal abortion services.
Body image issues: The societal and cultural pressures faced by women to conform to unrealistic and oppressive beauty standards.
Sexual harassment and assault: The range of sexually-based behaviors that are harmful, unwanted, or violate the boundaries of others.
Workplace inequality: The disparities between men and women's pay, opportunities, and experiences in the workplace.
Women's health: The medical and social issues surrounding women's health, including access to healthcare, reproductive health, and mental health.
Women's representation in media and politics: The visibility and representation of women in media and politics, and the impact of these representations on perceptions of gender roles and expectations.
Feminist theory: Different perspectives on feminism and how it can be applied to various aspects of society, including politics, economics, and culture.
Domestic violence: The patterns of abusive behaviors that occur within intimate relationships, including physical, emotional, and mental abuse.
Women's history: The role and contributions of women throughout history, as well as the ways in which they have been marginalized and oppressed.
Women's rights: Literature advocating for equality and the right to equal treatment under the law, including access to education and work opportunities.
Sexual harassment and assault: Literature bringing attention to the issue of sexual misconduct, including sexual assault and harassment, in different settings.
Body image: Literature discussing the impact that social expectations have on the way women view their bodies, and the pressure to conform to certain beauty standards.
Reproductive rights: Literature highlighting the struggles women face in accessing safe and legal abortion, birth control, and other necessary reproductive health services.
Intersectionality: Literature exploring the intersection of gender with other identities, such as race, sexuality, class, and disability, and how these intersections shape experiences and systems of oppression.
Motherhood: Literature discussing the pressures and expectations placed on mothers, as well as the societal structures that make it difficult for women to balance career and family.
Violence against women: Literature drawing attention to the widespread prevalence of violence against women, including domestic violence, rape, and sex trafficking.
Leadership and empowerment: Literature pushing for increased representation of women in leadership positions, both in politics and in the workplace, and highlighting the benefits of women in positions of power.
Feminist theory: Literature examining feminist concepts and ideas, including the patriarchy, sexism, gender roles and norms, and women's rights.
Cultural heritage: Literature highlighting the importance of women’s voices through personal experience and storytelling, empowering their cultural heritage.
- "Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, committed against women or girls specifically because they are female."
- "Such violence can take many forms."
- "Such violence may arise from a sense of entitlement, superiority, misogyny or similar attitudes in the perpetrator or his violent nature, especially against women."
- "The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women states, 'violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women.'"
- "At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime with the abuser usually someone known to her."
- "VAW has a very long history, though the incidents and intensity of such violence have varied over time."
- "Such violence is often seen as a mechanism for the subjugation of women, whether in society in general or in an interpersonal relationship."
- "Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, committed against women or girls specifically because they are female."
- "Such violence may arise from a sense of entitlement, superiority, misogyny or similar attitudes in the perpetrator or his violent nature, especially against women."
- "Violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men."
- "The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women states, 'violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women.'"
- "Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, declared in a 2006 report [...] Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions."
- "At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime with the abuser usually someone known to her."