Domestic violence against women in rural communities of Haryana

Pages: 271-275
Jatesh Kathpalia, Subhash Chander and Rashmi Tyagi (Department of Sociology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)

Domestic violence refers to violence against women especially in matrimonial homes. Domestic violence that is any act of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse, or the threat of such abuse, behaviors that frighten, intimidate, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, humiliate, blame, injure or wound someone, inflicted against a woman by a person intimately connected to her through marriage, family relation, or acquaintanceship is universal and has its root in the socio-cultural set up of the society. This research paper conducts a feminist socio-economic analysis of the domestic violence. The study was conducted among 200 women in rural area of Fatehabad district of Haryana State through survey method. Out of two hundred respondents, majority of respondents (67.50%) faced domestic violence in various forms. In majority of cases (66.66%) domestic violence occurred within 3 months of marriage. Education of the respondent, occupation, caste, social participation and level of social contacts were found significantly associated with domestic violence.