Domestic violence
Effect of Age at Marriage and Women’s Empowerment on Domestic Violence Experienced by Women in Some Selected States of India
By: LOUREMBAM NEROKA DEVI, KSHETRIMAYUM ANAND SINGH – In this paper we consider age at marriage to explain the risk of experiencing domestic violence by married women through some measures of women’s empowerment using data from NFHS-4 in India. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression is fitted to estimate the relative risk of experiencing domestic violence…
Gender and Violence in a Domestic Space During COVID-19 in India: Insights from Anthropology
By: LOVEENA SEHRA, SUBAL DAS – In the last few decades, gender issues have received importance from scholars across disciplines. The literature on the pathophysiology and epidemiology of domestic violence is extensive but an increase in domestic violence has led the academicians to seek epistemological answers from society. Further, the surge in domestic violence cases…