17Feb2016

A complex world of females and firearms

MarieClaire.com partnered with the Harvard Injury Control Research Center on a groundbreaking national survey of women's relationship with guns.While typical surveys assess gun ownership by household, meaning that if one person keeps a gun, his or her choice ends up representing the preference of everyone in the home, this survay looks for the voice of woman which is usually the silenced one. 

Beneath the surface of the guns discussion in America—one traditionally dominated by men—there's a complex world of females and firearms. In 10 stories, MarieClaire.com shed light on what often goes unseen: how women feel about, live with, and die by guns.

MarieClaire.com has partnered with the Harvard Injury Control Research Center to study American women's beliefs, opinions, and experiences in relation to gun ownership and gun control, the results of which are published here for the first time. More than 5,000 people were surveyed—as individuals rather than households—and the results illuminate a nuanced landscape for women and guns. As seen in the infographics  (and the full survey and methodology here), it turns out that when women are allowed to speak for themselves, they have very different things to say.

Read the whole story in the Public Policy Weekly Serbia. Subscribe for more stories like this one. Read the results of the Center's findings on gun possession in Serbia Targeting weapons - misuse of weapons in Serbia.