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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 5 page overview of the problem of gender-based violence. The author makes it clear that
gender-based violence is not just a problem in third world countries but extends even to the most technologically advanced countries. To address
this problem we must attack its roots, roots that condone the belief that males have an inherent right to control the behavior of females.
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Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPwomVio.rtf
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Women have been the targets of needless violence for centuries. Unfortunately, gender violence is a prevalent part of both the technologically developed countries and the third world
alike. This issue is, in fact, one with world implications in terms of human rights and health consequences. Although the more developed countries have begun to address domestic
violence through "programmatic interventions", much remains to be done even here (Heise, Pitanguy, and Germain). Gender violence, violence represented by rape, mutilation, domestic violence and other types of victimization;
continues yet it is infrequently considered as a public health issue. Women continue to die and suffer horrendous wrongs yet even the modern world continues to consider gender issue
in too light of a vein. The implications of this inaction are phenomenal. The World Bank recently found that even in established market economies:
"gender-based victimization is responsible for one out of every five healthy days of life lost to women of reproductive
age" (Heise, Pitanguy, and Germain). These lost days, lost days that have the
potential to represent some twenty percent of a womans life, leave many psychological and emotional scars as well as translate into obstacles in economic and social development for far too
many women around the world. To address this problem we must attack it at its root, not blind ourselves as to its full extent and implication, not treat only
the symptoms that are most easily observed. As Heise, Pitanguy, and Germain observe, "each society has mechanisms that legitimize, obscure, deny--and therefore perpetuate--violence". To overcome the problems of
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