According to authorities within the Ugandan Police Force, many Ugandans accept the battering of women as a long-standing social norm.[6] In 2001, a survey revealed that 90% of women reported that “beating a wife or female partner was justifiable in some circumstances.”[7] A 2018 Reuters article highlighted the concern over gender based violence in covering a story involving 20 corpses of young women along the roadsides south of the Kampala.[6] In addition to the lack of justice and protection against violence, there is a significant gender gap with education.