title: Origin and goals of the "Gender Symmetry" Workshop.
abstract: This article provides a brief account of the historical background to the Gender Symmetry Workshop and describes its major goals. The Workshop is a successor to an earlier workshop co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Justice in 1998, namely the Workshop on Building Data Systems for Monitoring and Responding to Violence Against Women. Some key issues that were left unresolved in that workshop provided the rationale for holding the Gender Symmetry Workshop. The Workshop was designed to cover three topic areas: (1) a typology of violence, (2) measurement issues, and (3) women's use of violence.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Leora N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Rosen
mesh_terms: D018585:Battered Women; D005260:Female; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000458:organization & administration; D006292:Health Priorities / Q000592:standards; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States; D016387:Women's Health