Estereotipos de Género: La perpetuación de la violencia contra la mujer

Abstract

Violence against women has grown by giant steps, its spread has had a strong impact on society and has increased the levels of discrimination and inequality; but the intervention by the Colombian State seems to be precarious, its inability to create public policies directed to the prevention and eradication of violence against women, becomes a huge key so that cases of violence continue appearing in the society; this work seeks to make a journey through the different significances or gender stereotypes that intervene or become a cause of the violation of women's rights. The causes of a number of abuses that women receive daily, will be treated from the humanitarian perspective, from the international and national instruments who protect human rights and also it will be explained how this significances have generated a series of preconceived ideas in society; leading the way to a marked gender violence, this will acquire an important role at the moment to talk about the presence of physical and sexual violence within the most intimate space in which the woman develops