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Structural Signatures of Gender Norms: Cross-National Predictability of Attitudes Justifying Violence Against Women

2026-01-26 public and global health Title + abstract only
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Violence against women is sustained not only by individual behavior but also by social norms that legitimize coercion and control. While attitudes justifying intimate-partner violence have been extensively documented in large-scale household surveys, they are rarely analyzed as structured, predictable population-level phenomena. Here, we model the continuous prevalence of violence-justifying attitudes across 70 countries and demographic subgroups using country-resolved supervised machine learnin...

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