WUNRN
EGYPT - STUDY ON THE COST OF
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
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Egypt Report: Violence against women is social violence. Society accepts violence conducted at the individual level, and in many cases encourages it, thus contributing to it. This study widely condemns all kinds of violence, including psychological violence, and works with the definition of violence as set forth by the United Nations, which regards violence against women as “…Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.”
This study depends on quantitative measurement of incidents of violence and
their impact on women’s lives. In spite of the researchers’ acknowledgement of
the psychological impact of violence on women, this study does not tackle
psychological effects in isolation but handles them in connection to how they
interfere with women’s productivity and participation in society. In other
words, the psychological impact is discussed implicitly in relation to women’s
productivity (in the short run and long run) and how much is foregone because
of exposure to violence as a female member of society.