The current article reviews recent studies on the justification of violence against women while using the system justification theory as a framework. Accordingly, justifying violence against women is motivated by the will to justify gender-based hierarchical structures in society. In this regard, individuals who justify violence against women adopt gender system justifying ideologies, including ambivalent sexism, domestic violence mythes, and gender stereotypes. Also, individuals who adopt increased levels of broader hierarchy-supporting ideologies, such as right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, belief in a just world, and conservatism, justify violence against women in higher degrees. Contextually, hierarchy-supporting cultures increase the justification of violence against women. Also, perceiving a threat against the gender system in the context makes individuals more prone to justify violence against women. In general, studies show that justifying the gender system, including the unequal instances within it, such as the violence against women, provides a palliative function for the universal needs for safety, social cohesion, and certainity. Yet, women who feel angry toward unequal gender-based instances or both men and women who carry moral-based concerns about these instances might support social changes that favor an equal context in the gender system. Keywords:
System justification, justifying violence, violence against women