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The war @ home: Preliminary findings of the Gauteng Gender Violence Prevalence Study

War at home

The war @ home: Preliminary findings of the Gauteng Gender Violence Prevalence Study

Over half the women of Gauteng (51.2%) have experienced some form of violence (emotional, economic, physical or sexual) in their lifetime and 78.3% of men in the province admit to perpetrating some form of violence against women.

Emotional violence - a form of violence not well defined in domestic violence legislation and thus not well reflected in police data - is the most commonly reported form of violence with 43.7% women experiencing and 65.2% men admitting to its perpetration. One in four women in the province has experienced sexual violence in their lifetime. An even greater proportion of men (37.4%) disclosed perpetrating sexual violence.

Yet violence against women is still regarded as a private affair with only 3.9% of women interviewed reporting this crime to the police.  One in 13 women reported non-partner rape and overall only one in 25 rapes had been reported to the police.

View the complete The war @ home: Preliminary findings of the Gauteng Gender Violence Prevalence Study by Gender Links and the Medical Research Council

22 November 2010