Assessing the impact of gender inequality on female homicide victimizationacross US cities - A racially disaggregated analysis

To expand our understanding of gender inequality and violent crime, this st udy provides aii assessment of the relationship between gender inequality a nd lethal violence against women. The authors use a cross-sectional design with racially disaggregated census data for 158 large U.S. cities in 1990 t o assess the degree to which women's absolute status and their status relat ive to men affect their risk of homicide victimization. Overall, the findin gs suggest that although certain measures of women's absolute and relative socio-economic status are related to female homicide victimization rates, w hen race-specific measures are used, the effects hold only for White women.