%T Gender equality and violence against women: what’s the connection? %A Liz Wall %I Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault %D 2014 %K Sex discrimination, %K Violence against women, %K Family violence, %K Women %U https://apo.org.au/node/40036 %X A lack of gender equality is consistently cited as an underlying determinant of violence against women. The United Nations General Assembly, in its 1993 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, noted that this violence is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women. Gender inequality as a cause of violence against women also underpins approaches to prevention by organisations such as the World Health Organization, and, in Australia, VicHealth, as well as much of the research on the topic. %9 Report