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What is Violence Against Women

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Handbook of Research on Remote Work and Worker Well-Being in the Post-COVID-19 Era
Gender-based violence perpetrated against women and girls. It includes any acts or threats that result in harm to women, including sexual harassment and assault, domestic violence, and intimate partner homicide.
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Remote Work, Sexual Harassment, and Worker Well-Being: A Study of the United States and India
Jacqueline Strenio (Southern Oregon University, USA) and Joyita Roy Chowdhury (FLAME University, India)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6754-8.ch003
Abstract
Workplace sexual harassment is a serious occupational hazard, adversely affecting workers' employment trajectories, economic well-being, and mental and physical health. Prior to COVID-19, it was widespread and primarily perpetrated by men against women, both in the physical workplace and physical and virtual public spaces associated with work. This chapter examines how the transition to remote work has effected changes in the prevalence and types of sexual harassment, paying attention to its gendered nature. Remote work holds both promise and peril. While exposure to physical harassment has fallen, information and communications technology has increased the risk of sexual harassment in virtual spaces. The cases of the United States and India are explored in more detail to compare worker experiences across the Global North and Global South, in countries with vastly different socioeconomic structures. This chapter contributes to the understanding of the benefits and challenges of remote work in combatting sexual harassment.
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Chapter 6
Representation of Violence Against Women in Television News: The Case of Emriye Metegül
All kinds of violence (physical, psychological, sexual) that women suffer due to their gender, all acts that cause them pain, threats, bullying and restriction of their freedom, such as all these types of violence, are all within the concept of violence against women.
Published in Chapter: Representation of Violence Against Women in Television News: The Case of Emriye Metegül; From: Narrative Theory and Therapy in the Post-Truth Era
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Ontic Narratives: A Study on Gender Narrative and the Legitimation Styles of Violence Against Women
Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
Published in Chapter: Ontic Narratives: A Study on Gender Narrative and the Legitimation Styles of Violence Against Women; From: Handbook of Research on Narrative Interactions
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Achieving Women Empowerment Through ICT: Case of a Government Initiative in India
Act of gender-based violence that results in physical or psychological harm or both, it includes sexism, workplace sexual harassment, rape, domestic violence, and psychological violence.
Published in Chapter: Achieving Women Empowerment Through ICT: Case of a Government Initiative in India; From: Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment
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The Role of Governance in Providing Services for Egyptian Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Is a term that is often used interchangeably as it has been widely acknowledged that most gender-based violence is inflicted on women and girls, by men.
Published in Chapter: The Role of Governance in Providing Services for Egyptian Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic; From: Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics
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Framing Femicide: An Analysis of Online Media Reporting on Romanian Immigrant Women Killed in Germany
Violence committed primarily or exclusively against women or girls, often as a form of hate crime, perpetrated 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, and is often seen as a mechanism for the subjugation of women, whether in society in general or in an interpersonal relationship. It is often used with the same meaning as gender-based violence, although the latter may have a broader sense.
Published in Chapter: Framing Femicide: An Analysis of Online Media Reporting on Romanian Immigrant Women Killed in Germany; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Violence and Discrimination Studies
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Online Violence Against Women as a Challenge of the Digital Age and the European Union's Role in Combating the Violence Against Women
Any gender-motivated acts causing mental, physical or sexual harm on women and resulting in women’s suffering. It can take various forms, such as online violence, intimate partner violence, rape, human trafficking, female gender mutilation or child marriage.
Published in Chapter: Online Violence Against Women as a Challenge of the Digital Age and the European Union's Role in Combating the Violence Against Women; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Violence and Discrimination Studies
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