In her address to the Council, the Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, highlighted the results of a research project conducted by Monash University in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Libya, and the Philippines.
The study, she said, found that “hostile sexist attitudes towards women were the factors most strongly associated with support for violent extremism, far more than age, degree of religiosity, level of education, or employment.”
This, Mlambo-Ngcuka said, “is a significant finding, especially because the vast majority of studies on terrorism ignore gender.”
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