The backlash hypothesis suggests that violence against women is:

a. higher when women feel greater empowerment to assault their intimates.
b. lower when women increase their economic equality and political power.
c. higher when men feel threatened by women's growing equality compared to what men already have.
d. lower for poorer women, and a normal part of cultural evolution.


Answer: c

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