Belén Sanz-Barbero1,2, Consuelo Corradi3, Laura Otero-García4,5, Alba Ayala6, Carmen Vives-Cases4,7. 1. National School of Public Health, Institute of Health Carlos III, Avenida Monforte de Lemos nº5, Madrid, Spain. bsanz@isciii.es. 2. CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Avenida Monforte de Lemos nº5, Madrid, Spain. bsanz@isciii.es. 3. Department of Human Studies, Lumsa University, Borgo S. Angelo 13, Rome, Italy. 4. CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Avenida Monforte de Lemos nº5, Madrid, Spain. 5. Nursing Section, Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid, Calle del Arzobispo Morcillo, Madrid, Spain. 6. National School of Public Health, Institute of Health Carlos III, Avenida Monforte de Lemos nº5, Madrid, Spain. 7. Public Health Research Group, Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, Alicante University, Carretera San Vicente del Raspeig, s/n, Alicante, Spain.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To describe and analyze whether a relationship exists between gender equality and political responses to gender violence (GV) against women with physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) in the European Union (EU). METHODS: We analyzed a subsample of 39,269 ever-partnered women aged 18 and older from the violence against women survey (2012) of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. Outcome was last 12 months physical and/or sexual IPV. Multilevel Poisson regression models were used. RESULTS: Current prevalence of IPV was 4.2%. Having suffered abuse by an adult before age 15 was the strongest associated factor for increasing the probability of suffering (PR: 2.9). Living in countries with higher gender equality, with anti-GV legislation prior to 2005, in countries where the state involved multiple actors in GV response and in countries with family policies included in the Anglo-Saxon, Eastern European and Southern European typologies (reference: Nordic), diminishes the women likelihood of suffering IPV. CONCLUSIONS: The response to IPV in the EU requires an integral approach that accounts for the efforts of multiple sectors as well as policies that reach greater levels of gender equality in the countries.
OBJECTIVES: To describe and analyze whether a relationship exists between gender equality and political responses to gender violence (GV) against women with physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) in the European Union (EU). METHODS: We analyzed a subsample of 39,269 ever-partnered women aged 18 and older from the violence against women survey (2012) of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. Outcome was last 12 months physical and/or sexual IPV. Multilevel Poisson regression models were used. RESULTS: Current prevalence of IPV was 4.2%. Having suffered abuse by an adult before age 15 was the strongest associated factor for increasing the probability of suffering (PR: 2.9). Living in countries with higher gender equality, with anti-GV legislation prior to 2005, in countries where the state involved multiple actors in GV response and in countries with family policies included in the Anglo-Saxon, Eastern European and Southern European typologies (reference: Nordic), diminishes the women likelihood of suffering IPV. CONCLUSIONS: The response to IPV in the EU requires an integral approach that accounts for the efforts of multiple sectors as well as policies that reach greater levels of gender equality in the countries.
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