DHS in the News

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Max Fisher
THE WASHINGTON POST (USA)

"A new study in the American Sociological Review, by Rachael S. Pierotti of the University of Michigan, looks at the attitudes of women in 26 different countries toward intimate partner violence. The findings, which could be potentially quite important for curbing domestic violence, suggest that global cultural attitudes increasingly reject it, and that women who are exposed to these ideas are more likely to adopt them..."

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Max Fisher
THE WASHINGTON POST (USA)

"A new study in the American Sociological Review, by Rachael S. Pierotti of the University of Michigan, looks at the attitudes of women in 26 different countries toward intimate partner violence. The findings, which could be potentially quite important for curbing domestic violence, suggest that global cultural attitudes increasingly reject it, and that women who are exposed to these ideas are more likely to adopt them..."

URL to article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/29/map-why-women-in-some-countries-still-say-domestic-violence-is-okay/