Social awareness of gender violence

Abstract

To address the issue of gender violence, it is necessary in the first instance to start from a definition: "Any act or threat that has as a consequence or possibilities of having as a consequence damage and/or suffering in the physical, sexual or psychological health of the woman ” (UN Economic and Social Council in 1992). It is essential to approach the causes that originate it and the logic to deal with it. Gender-based violence that presents men as aggressor agents is based on the socialization process that prepares men from their childhood to exercise a model of domination (as the presumed sole expression of their masculinity) against women. Precisely when this control scheme is transgressed, the violent man unleashes the aggression, as a desperate attempt to reaffirm and recover that control that is escaping from his hands. The consideration of misogyny as a contributory element in this regard still subsists as a hypothesis, but for sexist education (as a basis for gender violence) the certainties are unquestionable.