The provided evidence mentions women's empowerment principles and the vulnerability of women, but does not provide a specific factual or statistical confirmation that women's issues are 'taken more seriously' specifically because women are empowered. The evidence is too general to verify this specific causal claim.

While the evidence acknowledges that violence against women is a major public health problem and that UN initiatives exist to end it, there is no specific evidence provided in the search results that demonstrates a correlation or causal link stating that violence 'tends to go down' specifically where women are empowered.

The evidence discusses the low levels of reporting due to unequal power relations, but it does not provide evidence or data confirming that empowerment leads to higher reporting rates or more serious treatment by police. The provided text describes the problem rather than verifying the specific claim about the effect of empowerment.