Flash Eurobarometer 544 (Gender Stereotypes - Violence Against Women)

Violence against women.<br>Topics: acceptability of selected situations: displaying images of women with sexual connotation in advertising, men body gazing / ogling / catcalling, men making suggestive comments or allusions about a female colleague´s appearance at work, man occasionally slapping his wife or girlfriend, man controlling his wife’s or partner’s finances, man controlling his wife’s or girlfriend’s activities or relationships; attitude towards the following statements: women often make up or exaggerate claims of abuse or rape, domestic violence is a private matter and should be handled within the family; attitude towards the following statements: women should accept that they elicit sexist or abusive replies if they share their opinion on social media, husband or boyfriend can have sex with his wife or girlfriend without her consent, if women share intimate pictures of themselves with someone they are at least partially responsible if the image is shared online without their consent, if a woman says ‘no’ faced with a sexual proposal she often means ‘yes’, if a woman suffers sexual violence while under the influence of alcohol or drugs she is at least partially responsible; estimated extent of intimate partner violence against women in the own country; estimated extent of intimate partner violence against men in the own country.

Demography: age; sex; nationality; highest completed level of full time education; occupation; professional position; type of community; living together with a partner; household composition and household size.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; device used for interview; region; nation group; weighting factor.