In a study which surprises me not at all, The Lancet reports, Intimate partner violence against adolescent girls: regional and national prevalence estimates and associated country-level factors.
Our findings highlight the widespread prevalence of intimate partner violence against adolescent girls across the globe and its relationship with country-level contextual factors. They emphasise the need for promoting and ensuring policies and programmes that increase and ensure gender equality. Countries should strive to provide secondary education for all girls, ensure equal property rights for women, eliminate discriminatory gender norms, and address harmful practices such as child marriage.
Unfortunately, many countries including the United States, do not have gender equality in law or societal gender norms. We should have equal numbers of men and women in politics, business leadership, the trades, the military, the police, and every other segment there is. We should also have equality in the court room including equal punishment for equal crimes. And, of course, alimony payers should not be 98+ percent men.
The issue goes beyond gender. We also need equality with respect to race, ethnic origin, religion, sexual preference, etc.
And we need equality under the law for everyone, regardless of who they are. Lawyers such as Nelly Wince should not be able to openly profit from committing crime in the court room.
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