IB2014/43 'A Woman Should Be Beaten If She Deserves Punishment': Conversations with Men and Women in Fiji and Papua New Guinea

Among the consequences of conflict over gender roles or norms, the most disempowering one is violence against women. As part of the World Banks qualitative study informing the World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development (WDR 2012) local researchers in Fiji and Papua New Guinea (PNG) organised focus groups to elicit information about the impact of gender norms on women and men and to learn about the changes in womens and mens lives as these gender norms changed or persisted.