RT Article
T1 Gender Inequality and State Security: The Effects of Women’s Social Equality on Domestic Terrorism
JF Women & criminal justice
VO 33
IS 2
SP 94
OP 119
A1 Carter, Brittnee
A2 Rogers, Benjamin
A2 Turner, Amilee
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1843246929
AB Women’s roles in political violence and terrorism have largely been examined through the agent/victim dichotomy. We suggest that women’s social inequality contributes to both roles of women as victims and as perpetrators of terrorist violence, with both roles ultimately contributing to increases in supplies of domestic terrorism. Particularly, women’s social inequality contributes to terrorism in three ways: it normalizes violence in society, makes women susceptible to coercion from terrorist groups, and results in grievances in the female population that may mobilize them to violence. An in-depth case study of women in Somalia and the quantitative results both suggest that women’s political, economic, and social inequality are associated with higher levels of domestic terrorism. The results show that the impact of women’s social equality through balanced social exchanges in society subsumes the impact of vertical equality measures such as political and economic equality.
K1 Terrorism
K1 Political Violence
K1 Inequality
K1 Gender
DO 10.1080/08974454.2020.1871162