HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ASPECT OF THE PRECONDITIONS FOR THE EMERGENCE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

In recent decades, the issue of gender balance and combating sex discrimination has become widespread in all developed countries, thus to some extent reflecting the level of development of society achieved by a country. According to the World Health Organization, one in six women has experienced domestic violence. The article analyzes scientific works in terms of studying the historical aspects of the preconditions for the emergence of domestic violence against women as a complex and historically stable phenomenon. Normative documents of different epochs and during Ukraine's stay in other states are analyzed, as a result of which it is established that the problem of domestic violence has always existed, regardless of the evolutionary stage of society at one time or another. Analysis of historical sources shows that gender-based violence has always been a part of human existence. Its various origins can be traced back to antiquity. Even then, women had the status of enslaved people in society. It is concluded that women, since the existence of the Scythian state, have been dependent on men and have experienced various manifestations of gender inequality, such as: lack of property rights and inheritance; the possibility of buying and abducting a woman, transfer to temporary slavery, bail and employment; restriction of the grounds for divorce at the will of the wife; establishment of the institution of guardianship over women. It is concluded that women, since the existence of the Scythian state, have been dependent on men and have experienced various manifestations of gender inequality, such as: lack of property rights and inheritance; the possibility of buying and abducting a woman, transfer to temporary slavery, bail and employment; restriction of the grounds for divorce at the will of the wife; establishment of the institution of guardianship over women.