BACKGROUND Violence against women is one of the most systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a form of discrimination and deeply rooted in power imbalances and structural inequality between women and men. Documenting the extent of the problem and associated factors is essential to develop public health interventions to tackle violence against women. Therefore, the objec...

While there are many positive societal implications of increased female labor force opportunities, working may increase a woman’s risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a dataset I collected in sixty villages outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh, I document a positive correlation between work and domestic violence, but only among women with less education or who were younger at first marriage. Thes...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to assess predictor variables of husbands in multicultural families and examine the relationship among variables after setting up a hypothetical model including influencing factors, so as to provide a framework necessary for developing nursing interventions of domestic violence. METHODS The participants were 260 husbands in multicultural families in four citie...

During recent decades social theory has struggled with the attempt to overcome both subjectivist and structuralist conceptions. In this effort, actors have been understood to construct social reality through their practices. Thus, social practices are socially constructed at the same time. Neither subjects nor objects existed prior to this work of construction; the nature of reality is therefor...

this qualitative study presents women’s perceptions of domestic violence and their coping strategies based on self-narratives collected from a small sample in iran. by limiting women’s access to life opportunities, domestic violence is a major obstacle to social, economic, and political equity and by extension to development. violence against women goes beyond being a personal or a private issu...

The prevalence of physical domestic violence--violence against women perpetrated by husbands--is staggeringly high across the Indian subcontinent. Although gender-based power dynamics are thought to underlie women's vulnerability, relatively little is known about risk and protective factors. This prospective study in southern India examined the association between key economic aspects of gender...