Gender Symmetry

Asymmetry between men and women is a term that indicates that the quality of men is often more socially valuable than the quality of women. This word is composed of our society. We are taught how to act as a man or a woman in society. This theory allows male privilege concepts to dominate. Hegemonic masculinity, wage disparities between men and women, distance between spouses, and elite management all show evidence of gender asymmetry. "The concept of hegemonic masculinity dominates gender relations that strengthens and strengthens the social position of men against the characteristics of women and makes certain male qualities superior to those of other men It means that there is a way. "

The theory that women run IPV at about the same speed as men is called "gender symmetry". The first empirical evidence of sexymmetry was announced in the 1975 national home violence survey conducted by Murray A. Straus and Richard J. Gelles on 2,146 nationally representative samples of the "complete family" it was done. According to the survey, 11.6% of men and 12% of women have experienced some IPV in the last 12 months, but 4.6% of males and 3.8% of women have experienced "severe" IPV. These unexpected consequences caused the term "abuse of the husband's syndrome" by Suzanne Steinmetz in 1977. Since the results of Straus and Gelles have been published, other domestic violence researchers have discussed how sexual symmetry exists and how to distinguish strikers from victims.

The current literature on IPV has other views on gender symmetry theory. In the review of 2008 published in Violence and Victims magazine, severe circumstances of violence and fighting were the same for both men and women, but men found to be more serious and violent abuse . It is also likely that physical violence by women is more likely to be caused by self-defense and fear, and that men are more likely to be caused by control. The systematic review of the Journal of Traumatic Violence Abuse in 2011 also found that women's general motivation for male domestic violence is anger, that they need attention or respond to partner violence It was. Another comment in 2011 published in the magazine Aggression and Violence found that minor domestic violence is the same, but men have committed more serious violence.