GEE2 - GENDER AND SOCIETY

LESSON 8 (Part 2):

GENDER-RELATED
DISCRIMINATION
AND VIOLENCE

Presented by: Ms. Joan Elizabeth G. Ibay

TODAY'S TOPIC
Violence Against Women
Violence Against Members of
LGBTQIA+ Community
Violence Against Men
Violence Against Women
 On average, 736 million and up to 852 million
women who were aged 15 years or older in
2018 nearly

DID YOU 1 out of 3

KNOW?

have been subjected to physical and/or sexual

violence by an intimate partner or non-
partner sexual violence or both.

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240022256
ESTIMATES OF INTIMATE 1 IN 4
GLOBAL PREVALENCE
PARTNER VIOLENCE
ever-married/partnered
adolescent girls (24%, UI 21–
28%) in the youngest age
cohort (15–19 years old) is
estimated to have already
been subjected to physical
and/or sexual violence from
an intimate partner at least
once in their lifetime.
38%
of all murders of women are
committed by intimate
partners.
6%
of women report having been
sexually assaulted by someone
other than a partner
Risk factors for both Factors specifically Factors specifically
intimate partner and associated with associated with
sexual violence intimate partner sexual violence
violence perpetration
lower levels of
education and past history of beliefs in family
employment exposure to honour and sexual
a history of violence; purity;
exposure to child marital discord and ideologies of male
maltreatment dissatisfaction; sexual entitlement;
antisocial difficulties in and
personality disorder communicating weak legal
harmful use of between partners; sanctions for sexual
substances and violence.
harmful masculine male controlling
behaviors behaviours towards
unequal status their partners.
A STORY OF VIOLENCE: 16 OBJECTS SHOW
THE REALITY OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
AROUND THE WORLD
Violence Against Members of
LGBTQIA+
 4 times more
DID YOU LGBT people are nearly four times more
KNOW? likely than non-LGBT people to experience
violent victimization.

About half of all victimizations are not reported to police.

LGBT people are as likely as non-LGBT people to report
violence to police.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-lgbt-violence-press-release/
 It may be spontaneous or organized,
perpetrated by individual strangers or by
extremist groups.
A common characteristic of many anti-LGBT
Face of hate crimes is their brutality:
murder victims, for example, are often
Violence found mutilated, severely burnt, castrated,
and showing signs of sexual assault.
Transgender persons, especially those
involved in sex work or in detention, face an
especially high risk of deadly and extremely
cruel violence.
Violence Against Men
DID YOU
1 out of 6
KNOW?
men will be a victim of domestic abuse in
their lifetime.
 Determining the rate of intimate partner
violence (IPV) against males can be difficult,
as men may be reluctant to report their abuse

Estimation
or seek help.
IPV against men is generally less recognized

Difficulties by society than IPV against women.

Some male victims fear people assuming that
the woman is the real victim, and must have
been acting in self-defense or retaliating for
abuse.
QUESTIONS?
References https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-
sheets/detail/violence-against-women
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimate
partnerviolence/men-ipvsvandstalking.html
https://www.unfe.org/wp-
content/uploads/2017/05/Homophobic-and-
Transphobic-Violence.pdf
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-
lgbt-violence-press-release/