Development and validation of the LoVI: the Laws on Violence against women and girls Index.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a human-rights violation with adverse long-term and inter-generational consequences. Redefining VAWG as legally unacceptable is one strategy for social change. The co-occurrence of national laws against VAWG is understudied, and tools to monitor the national legal environment are lacking. We developed the Laws on Violence against Women and Girls Index (LoVI) to measure global progress to develop comprehensive national legislation against child marriage, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and marital rape.

Methods

Using data from 2016 and 2018 for 189 countries from the World Bank Women, Business, and the Law database, we used factor analysis to assess the dimensionality of the LoVI. We examined the distribution of the

SUBMITTER: Yount KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7260825 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature