Female Academics’ Perceptions of Economic Violence Towards Woman: The Case of Düzce University

To be able to contend with the various kinds of the violence against women, primary path that should be followed is making the violence apparent. The conceptual content of the kind of violence being faced must be cleared up. When the various parameters are taken into considerations, the question of how the given matters are being interpreted by the academic women who are actors in societal structure and mostly closer to the upper strata comes to mind. In this study we conducted by this perspective, from the eyes of the women academics, how they interpret the woman’s position in the society, the violence against women and specifically the economic violence towards woman are tried to be evaluated. By qualitative research methods, in the interviews conducted with 7 married and 7 single women striking results have been deduced; how important functions that the woman has in the attenuation of the economic violence against women and other violence types have been revealed