The Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty puts it even more strongly:'Entrenched gender stereotypes about the place of women in the home and the family, and the unpaid care work girls and women are expected to perform throughout their lives, often deprive women and girls of time.au-tonomy and choice to exercise this right’ (UN General Assembly 2013, para. Legislation criminalizing assault, murder and other forms of violence against the person is standard across States. But its pervasive lack of application to gender-based violence reflects a deep-seated negation of women as persons, the antithesis of recognition. This in turn both stemsfrom and reinforces gendered power relations in society.