ARENA OF REGULATION Sixteen Statements That Reflect Who Can Hurt a Woman in India Sanjay Singh 1 & Yogita Aggarwal 2 Received: 23 November 2019 /Revised: 2 February 2020 /Accepted: 14 February 2020 # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 Abstract Although the prevalence of a traditional negative attitude toward women is widely discussed in Indian culture, a scholarly tool to assess the same has been lacking. We developed a psychometric tool (the Traditional Attitudes toward Indian Women (TAIW) scale, Singh and Aggarwal 2019) to measure traditional negative attitudes toward women in the Indian cultural context and report its relevance for predicting violent attitudes toward women. The present paper offers a detailed discussion on the sixteen items of TAIW scale while positioning them in the relevant literature. The discussion is structured around the four broad dimensions (i.e., Perceived Feminine Frivolity and Selfishness; Extra-familial Patriarchal Attitudes; Within-Family Patriarchal Attitudes; Perceived Fem- inine Weakness) of the scale as identified in the parent study. The insights offered by the different statements, along with their implications for gender-based violence, have been discussed. Keywords Culture . Gender . Scale . Women Introduction Despite representing around 50% of the world population, women around the globe face varying levels of physical, social, and psychological violence. For instance, one in every three women in the world experiences physical/sexual abuse at some point in her life (United Nations Statistics Division 2015). A cross-national data spanning 81 countries from Africa, America, Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Western Pacific regions suggested a 30% mean prevalence rate of physical and sexual assaults over women by their partners (Krahé 2018). Human Arenas https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-020-00099-6 * Sanjay Singh sanjay.singh3210@gmail.com 1 Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur, Paonta Sahib, HP 173025, India 2 Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India