You can’t burn the house down because of one bedbug: a qualitative study of changing gender norms in the prevention of violence against women and girls in an urban informal settlement in India
| Autor: | Ketaki Hate, Bhaskar Kakad, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin, Preethi Pinto, Gauri Ambavkar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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India Medicine (miscellaneous) Library science Context (language use) General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Social group violence 03 medical and health sciences Social norms approach 0302 clinical medicine 5. Gender equality Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Gender role social norms 10. No inequality Reference group media_common 030505 public health business.industry Articles gender role Focus group Femininity Mumbai poverty areas Masculinity Social Science & Medicine 0305 other medical science business Social psychology Public Engagement 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Wellcome Open Research |
| ISSN: | 2398-502X |
| DOI: | 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.11805.2 |
| Popis: | Background: The contribution of structural inequalities and societal legitimisation to violence against women, which 30% of women in India survive each year, is widely accepted. There is a consensus that interventions should aim to change gender norms, particularly through community mobilisation. How this should be done is less clear. Methods: We did a qualitative study in a large informal settlement in Mumbai, an environment that characterises 41% of households. After reviewing the anonymised records of consultations with 1653 survivors of violence, we conducted 5 focus group discussions and 13 individual interviews with 71 women and men representing a range of age groups and communities. We based the interviews on fictitious biographical vignettes to elicit responses and develop an understanding of social norms. We wondered whether, in trying to change norms, we might exploit the disjunction between descriptive norms (beliefs about what others actually do) and injunctive norms (beliefs about what others think one ought to do), focusing program activities on evidence that descriptive norms are changing. Results: We found that descriptive and injunctive norms were relatively similar with regard to femininity, masculinity, the need for marriage and childbearing, resistance to separation and divorce, and disapproval of friendships between women and men. Some constraints on women’s dress and mobility were relaxing, but there were more substantial differences between descriptive and injunctive norms around women’s education, control of income and finances, and premarital sexual relationships. Conclusions: Programmatically, we hope to exploit these areas of mismatch in the context of injunctive norms generally inimical to violence against women. We propose that an under-appreciated strategy is expansion of the reference group: induction of relatively isolated women and men into broader social groups whose descriptive and injunctive norms do not tolerate violence |
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