2023-06-12 20:50:00
More than a third of men in Germany consider violence against women “acceptable”, according to survey results that activists described as “shocking” on Sunday.
A total of 33 percent of men between the ages of 18 and 35 said they found it “acceptable” to occasionally “raise your hand” to their female partner during an argument, according to the survey to be published by media group Funke on Monday. Thirty-four percent of those surveyed admitted that they had been violent towards women in the past.
They defend traditional roles
The nationwide survey, which included 1,000 men and 1,000 women aged 18 to 35, was commissioned by child aid organization Plan International Germany and was conducted online from March 9 to 21. In addition, it found that 52 percent of men said they believed their role was to be the main provider in a relationship, and that their partner should just run the household.
Just under half of those surveyed (48 percent) also expressed disgust at seeing public displays of homosexuality, saying they felt “disturbed” by it. “Traditional gender roles are still deeply embedded in people’s minds,” said Alexandra Tschacher, spokeswoman for Plan International Germany.
Hundreds of deaths each year
More than 115,000 women were victims of intimate partner violence in 2021, according to federal police data, or 13 women every hour. A total of 301 women were killed by their current or former partners in 2021.
Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said last year he would push for legal changes to punish violence against women more severely, saying such acts should not be downplayed as “private tragedies.”
“Gender violence must be named as such and punished with the necessary severity,” he said at the time.
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