Economic Factors and Practices in India

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Education is an economic factor that has led towards the domestic violence towards women in India. “Domestic violence was defined as any reported violence, either physical or psychological, perpetrated by a husband against his wife.”(Jeyaseelan et al., 658) Wives were often beaten by their husband just because the wife was more educated than him and earns more money than her husband. However, when husbands had higher levels of education in India, wives had fewer chances of being abused. (Jeyaseelan et al., 663) A feminist would respond that education has a major impact on the violence against women because when a woman is more educated than her husband, the husband would abuse her to keep his wife under his control and power whereas when the husband is more knowledgeable, he would not prefer to abuse his wife since he knows that he has power and hegemony over his wife as she does not have as high levels of education as her husband.

Household factors such as less household appliances also contribute to the abuse to women in India. “Women who had no toilet facility within the home or had accessed to an outside toilet facility had two-fold risk of experiencing physical violence as compared to those who had toilets within their home.” (Jeyaseelan et al., 663) A feminist would explain that household appliances serve as a buffer to protect women against the violence as more household appliances means that the husband has higher levels of education, so the family has the necessary finance to serve a family. Therefore, household appliances reduce the risk of abuse towards the women in India.

Another economic factor that directed towards the violence against women in India is alcohol. Surveys done in rural, urban and urba...

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Tepperman, Lorne, Albanese, Patrizia and Curtis, Jim. SOCIOLOGY: A CANADIAN PRESPECTIVE. 3rd ed. Canada: Oxford University Press, 2012.26-27. Print.

Tichy, Lauren L., Judith V. Becker, and Melissa M. Sisco. "The Downside of Patriarchal Benevolence: Ambivalence in Addressing Domestic Violence and Socio-Economic Considerations for Women of Tamil Nadu, India." Journal of Family Violence 24.8 (2009): 547-58. Web

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