Cross-Cultural Perspective on Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women

Violence in close partner relationships is the most common form of violence experienced by women worldwide. It is a complex phenomenon often bearing long term health consequences for women. Understanding of the wider social context and culture specific factors that support violence is necessary to implement effective preventative intervention. We first list existing literature findings of studies investigating attitudes towards violence against women. Afterwards we propose 9 measures that would help increase understanding multi-stakeholder institutional responses to violence against women.