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Katie: What I Learned About Violence Against Women, Kaya: What I Learned…
Katie: What I Learned About Violence Against Women
Generally, poor women are disproportionately affected by domestic abuse. Additionally, the essay we read did not talk about it but I am sure there is information about how women of different races and cultures are also affected in other ways.
Violence against women as a whole is incredibly hard to measure and draw conclusions from because self-reports are huge underestimates of reality
"Intimate partners are responsible for 3/4 of all violence against women."
"Everyday 14,000 women in the U.S. are battered and 4 are killed by intimate partners" and this is just in the US! - One of the safer places for women to live compared to developing or third-world countries
"Women with an annual income of less that $10,000 report rates of domestic violence five times greater than those with an annual income of above $30,000."
Kaya: What I Learned About the Wage Gap
"Average annual wages are calculated by gender and race in each country"
The wage gap is not only calculated by gender, but other factors like race, country and level of education
"It is interesting to note that even though within-industry differences in wages(between men and women) explain more of the total wage gap than between-industry differences in levels
There are less women in power positions within specific industries which dramatically affects the overall wage gap in the country
"The second concern relates to the possibility that changes in the wage gap might be correlated with changes in access to non-hospital medical which might reduce reliance on the hospital
This quote offers a new perspective for me on reasons for the wage gap. Confidence is not the only reason women are achieving less in the workplace and therefore making less money.
The Correlation Between The Wage Gap
and Domestic Violence
The research paper presents a couple of theories that have been presented and tested by researchers to see how wages and domestic violence can possibly be correlated.
Another perspective about wages/employment of women and abuse is that increasing employment of women reduces violence by reducing the amount of time partners spend together.
The most common and most supported theory is that increasing a woman's relative wage increases her bargaining power and reduces violence by improving her outside options.
This is supported by the idea that the fewer resources a woman has, the less likely she is to leave abusive relationships.
The theory of male backlash is one counterargument to the idea that increasing a woman's work power (through unemployment or wages), reduces violence. Sociocultural models of male backlash predict that an increase in a woman's wage actually increases violence because through women obtaining more power, traditional gender roles are threatened.
"Reductions in the gender wage gap explain 9% of the decline in domestic violence witnessed between 1990 and 2003."
The Gender Wage Gap and Domestic Violence
https://www-jstor-org.aurarialibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/27871277?pq-origsite=summon&seq=9#metadata_info_tab_contents