Gender Violence, A Social Problem Within Culture

Gender violence, a social problem within culture

Introduction

Address one of the most relevant social problems today. Violence against women as a structural, historical and social problem deeply rooted in culture, in which all social and ethnic groups are immersed, and is not closely related to the social class or educational level of people. To delimit the information, the phenomenon will be analyzed in the Colombian case.

The writing allows us to understand the place that the genre had in the dynamics of the armed conflict, especially in violence against Colombian women. It is expected to contribute to diversity and respect between women and men as one of the most fundamental pillars in the construction of a tolerant, dignified and equal culture.

For the purposes of work, the theme will be consolidated through three parties, in which the concept of violence against women is described first;second, the history of the phenomenon in society and culture;And finally, it arises about how and how this problem has gone from being a private issue to a social issue.

Contents

To understand the issue that I will develop during the writing I consider fundamental to understand the concept of social problem. According to (Ander-Egg, 1986) "a social problem is a social situation of imbalance, mismatch or lack of harmony or amoral situation, which forces a radical reformulation". That is, there is a social problem when a relevant group of society perceives and defines certain "normal" conditions or situations as a problem and starts various strategies to solve them.

The violence exercised against women, according to (UN, Standard Rules on the on Equalisation of Opportunities for Persians with Disabilities ’., 1993) "It is any act of violence based on the genre that produces, or ends up producing physical, psychic or sexual damage, including threats or deprivation of liberty, whether it occurs both in the public and private sphere". This violence exercised against women is not an unknown phenomenon, what is considered new is its visibility as a social problem that hinders full equality within a society. Since only two decades.

According to (UN & United, ending violence against women: from the words the facts, 2006), the negative impact of the phenomenon on the female population made them aware that these conditions of “normal” oppression and domination should notcontinue because they hindered equality and further encouraged the violence of men over women. In addition, recognizing the situation as a problem with society allowed women to organize and identify themselves as a movement, the feminist movement to create actions and strategies to make the population visible that violence against women is multidimensional. That is, it produces causes, consequences and repercussions both in the public and private sphere.

While it is true that today we live in a society that has a more favorable mentality of gender equality than that had only a few years ago, and that the roles have changed in some parts of the world. In Latin America there are still high levels of tolerance on violence against women. This, to a large extent, is attributed to the patriarchal social organization that for centuries has been responsible for promoting social imaginary that determine the roles and stereotypes associated with the masculine and the feminine, which are learned through socialization processes that varyFrom one culture to another, creating power and inequality relations that remain in time and have individual, community and collective impacts (Melo, 2006). To delimit the information, the phenomenon will be analyzed in the Colombian case.

In Colombia, violence against women has a different historical and cultural structure from the others. In the country there were two fundamental factors that were responsible for spreading inequality, first it was culture, this social structure was responsible for maintaining the body of women as a territory that can be colonized by men in all scenarios;Second, the armed conflict achieves that violence towards women will cross all sectors of the country regardless.

For five decades, Colombia through an internal armed conflict, which began with the emergence of legal and illegal armed groups that have exercised territorial, political and economic control in various areas of the country. In the 90s, the State tried to control the power of the paramilitaries, but it was impossible, since they had spread throughout the territory. The insurgent groups wanted to dominate the different sectors (social, political, economic and military) of Colombia, including neighboring borders, and to achieve their objective they had to establish alliances, which resulted in violent acts in the different regions of the country. At one end were the FARC, which kidnapped political leaders, stripped the peasant communities of their resources and recruited the women in the area, and on the other the paramilitary groups were responsible for chasing the guerrillas, disappearing, torture, hit or kill women who had ties with politics or were low -income peasants.

The dynamics of the armed conflict reaffirmed that violence against women were war tactics that were intended to ensure male domination to demonstrate superiority against the enemy. The macho culture classified the woman as a lower, subordinate and subordinate being to which she had to shut up, punish, displace and take her freedom and autonomy through recruitment, imposing a sentimental partner, forcing her to use contraceptive methods, to practice clandestine abortionsAnd prostitution exercises as something "normal" and justified to win the war, a war that was not of them.

At present, violence continues to externalize as a natural construction in some areas of the country. While it is true that the increase in this problem is due to multiple factors, such as unemployment, poverty, corruption, microtraphic, low access to education, displacement, economic and emotional dependence, among others. The presence and influence of illegal groups that continue to use violence over women as a mechanism of war to exercise political, social and economic control is still evident.

When reviewing the current situation of the problem, I could show that the armed conflict continues to determine the life project of many women who were born and lived in Colombia. Through statistical data it was mentioned that violence against women is a reality that we all know and live to a greater or lesser degree. According to (Sivigila, 2018) “In 2017 98 were reported.999 cases of gender violence being 77% cases of women, in addition the type of violence that was most registered was physics with 78.2%, sexual 87.7% and psychological with 84.0% ”. In 2018 (Mosquera, 2019) Ombudsman announced through its defender’s report: that in the case of women “64 % declared to be victims of psychological violence, 50 % of physical violence, 34 % of economic violence and14 % sexual violence ". The increase in cases allows to demonstrate that the internalization of these macho and patriarchal ideals continuesThe aspects of everyday life.

recommendations

As a personal opinion I propose the following proposal that could hypothetically eradicate the root problem. To achieve a significant change, it is essential. The campaigns will be directed professionals from the area of health and social sciences, there will be the support and accompaniment of organizations, institutions, academic communities and students. In addition, children and girls, adolescents and young adults, young adults and older adults would be especially implemented, these actions are expected to modify established stereotypes that have been attributed to men and women throughout thehistory.

conclusion

We can say that violence against women is a social and public health problem that has its origin in social relations based on inequality and a patriarchal, macho and violent culture that have been responsible for assigning throughout the time different rolesTo men and women. This type of violence exercised towards women, leaves very broad consequences that influence all aspects of the victim’s life, the best known are: fractures, chronic headaches, hemorrhages, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, sexual dysfunction, depression,Anxiety, fear and other psychological disorders, abuse or dependence on substances, harassment and violations, social rejection, extremely dependent behavior, suicide attempts and death. In addition, families, groups and society extends (Molina, 2019). Violence against women in the armed conflict, and their affected in the Colombian regions still remain in the social constructions of the population.

This problem made me show that it is the same women who through the different groups have organized to work together for the inclusion and protection of women’s rights in political and public spaces. While it is true that government and society actions have "mitigated" in some other way violence against women. There is still a high degree of work, social and cultural inequality for women.

From my point of view it is necessary that research on gender violence in Colombia takes into account the incidence that the different dynamics of the armed conflict in violence against Colombian women had. It is not simply to collect data from some areas of the country, but we must go thorough.

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