More than 12 million women in Italy,
equal to almost 51%, between the ages of 18 and 84, have
experienced physical or psychological violence at least once in
their lifetime but only 5% have reported the incident, according
to a study carried out by Institute of Clinical Physiology of
the National Research Council (CNR) in 2022 and the results of
which were published Friday.
Over 2.5 million women (10.1%) reported currently experiencing
situations of psychological violence and 80,000 (0.3%) said they
were currently suffering physical violence.
The victims of violence were mainly women under 60 years of age
with a medium-high level of education, a job and an average
income and who were married and living with their partner,
according to the study.
Over half had children.
CNR said the data on gender-based violence in Italy provide
"evidence of a particularly extensive and only partly visible
phenomenon".
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