El silencio de la mujer cuando es víctima de violencia en el Ecuador.

Abstract

Although filing a complaint against the aggressor of gender violence does not ensure that these violent acts will end, this is a starting point to demand that an absent State take criminal or civil measures in favor of the victims, because a State that does not intervene and does not promote equality is a State that encourages all types of violence. Therefore, breaking the silence in the face of acts of violence suffered by a mother, a daughter, a friend represents an act of courage. This study analyzes the socioeconomic factors that affect the probability that a woman is a victim of some type of violence, for which a probit model and a multinomial probit model are estimated; and the factors that affect the probability that a woman victim of violence reports her aggressor, for which a probit model was estimated. The estimates were performed in the educational, work, family and partner areas, using the National Survey on Family Relations and Gender Violence Against Women, 2019 of the Institute National of Statistics and Censuses. The results suggest that women who used formal and informal support networks and the women who suffer many types of violence are more probability to report their aggressor.