Positive Correlation Between Women’s Status and Intimate Partner Violence Suggests Violence Backlash in Mwanza, Tanzania

Urbanization in low and middle-income nations is characterized by economic and demographic shifts largely understood to be beneficial to women?s empowerment. These changes include increased education and wage-labor opportunities, a disruption of traditional patrilocal residence systems, and reductio...

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Authors: Kilgallen, Joseph A. (Author) ; Schaffnit, Susan B. (Author) ; Kumogola, Yusufu (Author) ; Galura, Anthony (Author) ; Urassa, Mark (Author) ; Lawson, David W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Journal of interpersonal violence
Year: 2022, Volume: 37, Issue: 21/22, Pages: NP20331-NP20360
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Keywords:
Domestic Violence
Gender Equality
gender norms
Intimate Partner Violence
spousal age gap
Urbanization
violence backlash
women's empowerment