How does economic empowerment affect women's risk of intimate partner violence in low and middle income countries? A systematic review of published evidence
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- Women’s Access to Labor Market Opportunities, Control of Household Resources, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh (2014, neutral): “Other studies show mixed results on the correlation between whether a woman works and domestic violence (Vyas and Watts 2009).”
- Resources and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017, background): “Reviewing the literature, Vyas and Watts (2009) also find that the negative correlation between education and violence only exists for women with secondary schooling or more, compared to women with no education.”
- What factors are associated with recent intimate partner violence? findings from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence (2011, background): “Even if it is not an independent or proximate risk factor but one that is partially confounded by or mediated through other factors (as suggested by the multivariate analysis), socioeconomic status of households should be taken into account when designing and targeting IPV intervention programmes [2”
- Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Is Women Empowerment a Reducing Factor? A Study from a National Bangladeshi Sample (2011, background): “Employed women may be at higher risk of experiencing violence (Rani and Bonu 2009) because they may be more likely to challenge their husbands’ authority or because their husbands perceive a threat to their authority (Koenig et al. 2003; Rocca et al. 2009; Schuler et al. 1996; Vyas and Watts 2009).”
- Measuring Women’s Empowerment: A Critical Review of Current Practices and Recommendations for Researchers (2017, background): “For instance, in some contexts economic empowerment interventions have increased women’s risk of intimate partner violence (Vyas and Watts 2009).”
- Intimate partner violence : economic costs and implications for growth and development (2013, background): “rigorously establish the impact of IPV on long-term employment, a longstanding call of other research reviews (Riger and Staggs 2004; Swanberg, Logan, and Macke 2005; Tolman and Raphael 2000; Vyas and Watts 2009).”