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The concept of inequality includes (1) distribution of economic and power opportunities, (2) the social classes and institutionalized groups, including, but not restrained to, race and gender, and (3) the conventional economic inequality (Grusky 2018).
The concept of gender is used to demarcate the biological differences that defines the sex of an individual (Pilcher and Whelehan 2004). However, gender is associated with an individual’s classification into masculinity or femininity based on one’s somatic and behavioral criteria as perceived by society in their cultural context (Graber 2007; Lindsey 2016).
Violence is the use of physical force or power with an intention to inflict harm, in extreme case, even death, to self/a person/a group of persons (WHO 1996).
Violence against women (VAW) is defined as the act of violence,...
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Bulsari, S. (2021). Violence and Victimization: Gender Inequality. In: Leal Filho, W., Marisa Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Gökçin Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Reduced Inequalities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95882-8_30
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