Gender and Violence

Prepared by: JANELLE ANGELA S. GAMBOA

 Violence

• is an extreme form of aggression,

such as assault, rape or murder.
 It may cause ...
• Frustration
• exposure to violent media
• violence in the home or neighborhood and a tendency to see other
people's actions as hostile even when they're not.
• increase the risk of aggression, such as drinking, insults and other
provocations and environmental factors like heat and overcrowding.
 Gender-based violence
• –any harmful act that is
perpetrated against a
persons’ will and that is
based on socially-ascribed
(gender) differences
between males and females
Women become victims of all forms of
violence:
• battering, rape, sexual
harassment, female genital
mutilation and other traditional
practices harmful to women
simply because they are women
and occupy a subordinate status
in society.
Common Forms of Sexual Violence
• - use of sexual acts wherein the
abuser forces or coerces the woman
to engage in sex or any sexual
activity she finds unacceptable.
• rape, acts of lasciviousness,
• treating victims as sex object,
• making demeaning and sexually
suggestive remarks,
• physically attacking the sexual parts
of the victims body,
 Sexual Violence
• Forcing to watch obscene
publication and indecent shows •
Forcing the wife and mistress to
live in conjugal home or sleep
together in the same room with the
abuser
• Prostituting the woman or child
 Economic Abuse
• Economic Abuse - acts that make
or attempt to make a woman
• financially dependent,
• withdrawal of financial support,
• preventing women from
engaging in any legitimate
profession,
• Destroying household property
 Psychological Abuses
• - acts or omission or causing or likely to
cause mental or emotional suffering of
the victim but not limited to:
• intimidation,
• harassment,
• stalking,
• damage to property,
• Pull up for precise seeking •
• public ridicule, or humiliation, repeated
verbal
• Marital infidelity.
 Psychological Abuses (Continuation ...)
• Allowing the victim to witness
the physical, sexual, or
psychological abuse of a member
of the family
• Witness pornography in any form
• Witness abusive injury to pets
• Deprivation of the right to custody
or visitation of common children
Republic act 9262 Anti-Violence Against
Women and Their Children Act of 2004
• An act defining violence against
women and their children,
providing for protective
measures for victims, prescribing
penalties therefore, and for other
purposes.
• Republic Act 8353 ”The Anti-Rape Law of
1997”
• An act expanding the definition
of the crime of rape,
reclassifying the same as a crime
against persons, amending for
the purpose act no. 3815, as
amended, otherwise known as
the revised penal code, and for
the purposes.
Republic Act 11313 “Safe Spaces Act”
• An act defining gender-based
sexual harassment in streets,
public spaces, online, workplaces,
and educational or training
institutions, providing protective
measures and prescribing penalties
therefore , and for other purposes.
Republic act 7877 “Anti-Sexual Harassment
Act of 1995”
• An act declaring sexual
harassment unlawful in the
employment, education or training
environment, and for other
purposes