By violence against women respondents mean first of all sexual and physical violence. Fewer women mentioned other forms of violence (such as psychological pressure or economic discrimination), although these responses constitute over 50% of responses.
In rural areas psychological pressure is less frequently associated with violence against women. Thus, in oblast centres around two thirds of respondents think that obscenity and swearing/bad language can be considered as violence against women, while in rural areas the number of women surveyed who believe this barely exceeds 50%. The same trend, but to a lesser extent, can be observed when evaluating the relation of violence and discrimination against women on the basis of sex during employment and salary payment (the “zero hypothesis” about the absence of linkages between the area of living and responses is not confirmed).