@article{ref1,
title="The impact of national-level gender inequality on the sexual abuse of girls",
journal="Violence against women",
year="2021",
author="LeSuer, Will",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Feminist scholars from various social science disciplines posit that gender inequality (GI) is harmful to women's well-being. Feminist criminologists argue that GI is criminogenic, especially of sexual violence. I apply this framework to a specific form of sexual violence: child sexual abuse (CSA). Using multilevel generalized linear modeling to analyze the responses of 10,106 women from 27 countries in the International Dating Violence Study, I test for significant associations between national-level GI and self-reported retrospective reports of CSA. While controlling for other risk factors, I find that GI is significantly associated with increased odds of having experienced CSA among women.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-8012",
doi="10.1177/10778012211005563",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778012211005563"
}