The Role of Intersectionality and Context in Measuring Gender-Based Violence in Universities and Research-Performing Organizations in Europe for the Development of Inclusive Structural Interventions
Inhalt: The aim of the article is to discuss how thinking about gender-based violence intersectionally and in context can not only enrich our understanding but also lead to transformative change in organizations. The article argues that to better understand gender-based violence in universities and research institutions, analyses need to be intersectional and contextual. Such approaches go beyond binary understandings of gender and narrow legalistic definitions of gender-based violence. The article reflects on how to operationalize this to derive starting points for intersectional categories to consider and contextual factors to measure at micro-, meso-, and macro-levels. It concludes that a multilevel intersectional analysis leads to more nuanced knowledge on experiences of gender-based violence and is, therefore, better equipped to inform the development of measures to eradicate the problem in an inclusive way.
Inhalt: Between January and May 2022, UniSAFE coordinated the implementation of a survey
among 46 participating universities and research organisations in 15 countries in Europe,
to collect measurable evidence on prevalence of gender-based violence in academia and
research.
All staff and students (18 years and older) from these organisations received the survey via
internal communication channels. The full list of participating organisations is available at
https://unisafe-gbv.eu. All institutions participated on a voluntary basis, as part of their
involvement in the UniSAFE project, as a joint effort to tackle gender-based violence in
academia by generating new knowledge and developing operational tools.
The 15 countries include Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and United Kingdom. The
survey was also administered to an international association of mobile researchers.
The response rate to the survey varied across the 46 participating universities and research
organisations. Overall, the total response rate is 3.9%, with a significantly higher response
rate of 10.5% among staff than among students (2.7%).
Schlagwörter:GBV; Umfrage
CEWS Kategorie:Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
UniSAFE D4.1 Final UniSAFE-Survey Questionnaire
Autor/in:
Lipinsky, Anke; Schredl, Claudia; Baumann, Horst; Lomazzi, Vera; Freund, Frederike; Humbert, Anne Laure; Tanwar, Jagriti; Bondestam, Fredrik
Quelle: UniSAFE - Gender-based violence and institutional responses: Building a knowledge base and operational tools to make universities and research organisations safe; , 2021.
Inhalt: The questionnaire will be used to collect data from staff and students on prevalence, determinants and consequences of gender-based violence in universities and research organisations. It includes several modules on e.g. prevalence, prevention, policies, and partnerships, and contains filters to take different study and work environments into consideration.
States of violence: Exploring welfare state regimes as violence regimes by developing a violence regimes index
Autor/in:
Strid, Sofia; Humbert, Anne Laure; Hearn, Jeff; Balkmar, Dag
Quelle: Journal of European Social Policy, 31 (2021) 3, S 321–336
Inhalt: The aim of the article is to examine if and how the welfare state regime typology translates into a violence regime typology in a European context. It builds on the concept of violence regimes (Strid et al. 2017; Hearn et al. 2020) to empirically examine whether the production of interpersonal violence constitutes distinct regimes, and how these correspond (or not) with welfare regimes, gender regimes, and with other comparative metrics on violence, gender equality and feminist mobilisation and transnational actors. Its main contribution is to operationalise the concept of violence regimes, thereby moving from theory to a first empirical measurement. By first constructing a new composite measure of violence, a Violence Regimes Index, based on secondary administrative and survey data covering the then 28 EU member states, countries are clustered along two axes of violence: ‘deadly’ violence and ‘damaging’ gender-based violence. This serves to examine if, and how, the production of gendered violence in different states constitutes distinct regimes, analogous to welfare state regimes, as well as to enable future research and further comparisons and contrasts, specifically related to violence and the welfare state. By providing an empirical measurement of violence regimes in the EU, the article then contributes further to the debates on welfare, welfare regimes, and violence. It specifically contributes with discussions on the extent to which there are different violence regimes, comparable to welfare regimes, and with discussions on the relevance of moving from thinking about violence as an institution within other inequality regimes, to thinking about violence as a macro-regime, a way of governing and ruling in its own right. The article concludes that the exclusion of violence from mainstream social theory and research has produced results that may not be valid, and offers an alternative classification using the concept of violence regimes, thereby demonstrating the usefulness of the concept.
Undoing the 'Nordic Paradox': Factors affecting rates of disclosed violence against women across the EU
Autor/in:
Humbert, Anne Laure; Strid, Sofia; Hearn, Jeff; Balkmar, Dag
Quelle: PLoS ONE, 16 (2021) 5
Inhalt: Measuring violence against women raises methodological questions, as well as the wider question of how to understand violence and locate it in relation to a societal context. This is all the more relevant given that measurement of violence against women in the EU has made an interesting phenomenon apparent, the so-called 'Nordic Paradox', whereby prevalence is higher in more gender equal countries. This article examines this phenomenon by exploring a range of factors-methodological, demographic and societal-to contextualise disclosed levels of violence. The analysis makes use of a multilevel analytic approach to take into account how macro and micro levels contribute to the prevalence of violence. The intercepts are then used to illustrate how taking these into account might provide an alternative ranking of levels of violence against women in EU countries. The results show that the 'Nordic Paradox' disappears-and can be undone-when factors at individual and country levels are considered. We conclude that the 'Nordic Paradox' cannot be understood independently from a wider pattern of violence in society, and should be seen as connected and co-constituted in specific formations, domains or regimes of violence. Our results show that the use of multi-level models can provide new insights into the factors that may be related to disclosed prevalence of violence against women. This can generate a better understanding of how violence against women functions as a system, and in turn inform better policy responses.