Domestic Violence against Women:The Socioeconomic Scenario

Any evaluation of the status of women has to start from the social arrangement, social structures, enlightening norms and value systems that influence social prospect regarding the behaviour of both men and women and decide women's roles and their position in society. A society is composed of many institutions and most important of them are the system of decent, family and kinship, marriage and religious traditions. All of them provide the principles and moral basis for men and women about their rights and duties and their well defined status and role. But unfortunately recently society has become a place where women are tortured and battered and their position in society is being challenged in each and every sphere. Thus in this backdrop the present paper is attempted to investigate the socioeconomic status of women and its significant relation to violence against women. The findings of the present study concluded that socio-economic status of women influences domestic violence. In addition violence takes place mostly among those women who are poor in education, are unemployed, belong to urban area, are culturally backward and finally belonged to poor economic status.