The first part of the conversation focuses on violence against women and Janina's research on domestic violence during the coronavirus pandemic in Germany, as well as the methodology of this study. You can read the entire study and a summary here. This section also highlights the limitations and methodologies of other studies and discusses the problem of unreported cases in violence research. It also explains that violence is not only physical assault, but also has psychological and emotional (controlling behaviour by partners, intimidation) and economic (prohibiting gainful employment, incurring debts in the woman's name) aspects.

The second part discusses a study conducted in cooperation with World Bicycle Relief, which aims to enable young girls to stay in school longer by providing them with bicycles. Janina's investigation of this intervention looked at whether this measure also protects girls from violence in relationships in the long term. The girls who received support showed a lower rate of domestic violence and greater decision-making power and self-efficacy. Interestingly, however, the rate of pregnancy and early marriage was higher in the group of girls who received a bicycle than in the control group. Although these results contradict the hypotheses formulated at the outset, Janina and the authors find that girls who received a bicycle tended to marry more affluent partners, experience less domestic violence and have fewer pregnancies outside of marriage. You can read the project description and the resulting publications here.

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