Sociodemographic factors related to access to justice for women victims of domestic violence in Honduras, 2012

Abstract

Main findings, it was found that violence against women generates the main demand of access to justice for the judiciary because 57.9% of the population of women living with friends either married or cohabiting and the prevailing patriarchal culture. However, it is a subject with little significance for the judiciary, an institution that gives greater emphasis to access to justice to other social problems when compared with the problem of violence against women is lower demand for access. It as determined the existence of an unequal access to justice to the detriment of women in rural areas, since those living in urban areas enjoy better service. The reduction of fertility in 15 years as well as the demographic transition and increased education of women will indirectly a factor of increased demand of women access to justice and that these factors generate greater social participation and economics of women.

Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonautas y Caminantes, Vol. 11, 2015: 9-20