“Creating a Generation of Equality”: A Stakeholder’s Perspective on Power Dynamics and Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a significant public health concern in Zimbabwe, with 38% of women experiencing intimate partner violence. Rooted in the country's patriarchal structure, power imbalances contribute to this epidemic. This study aimed to investigate the perspectives of key stakeholders on the relationship between power dynamics and GBV in Zimbabwe, and as well as to explore potential interventions to address this issue. Methodology: A descriptive qualitative research design was used. We collected data from fourteen participants using three focus group discussions. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data. Results: Three themes that emerged on power dynamics and GBV were economic inequality, gender stereotypes, and lack of access to justice. Two themes that emerged for recommendations were gender-transformative and economic empowerment programming. Conclusion: Findings from this study underscore the need to include men in designing and implementing gender-transformative programs alongside economic empowerment initiatives to effectively address GBV and dismantle patriarchal structures in Zimbabwe.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".