Domestic Violence Against Women in Rural Parts of Dakshin Dinajpur District West Bengal

Abstract

Domestic violence against women is a common and widespread issue affecting millions newlineof women worldwide, cutting across cultures, social classes, and geographic newlineboundaries. It encompasses various forms of abuse, including physical, emotional, newlinesexual, and economic violence, often inflicted by intimate partners or family members. newlineIn this present research the term Domestic Violence has been used in terms of newlineintimate partner violence against women. Although there have various type and forms newlineof domestic violence but the current research study only focuses on physical and/or newlineemotional violence in rural parts of Dakshin Dinajpur district, West Bengal perpetrated newlineby the husband against their wife. Women in rural areas often face heightened newlinevulnerability due to their isolation, lack of awareness of legal protections, and newlinerestricted access to support systems such as law enforcement, healthcare, and newlinecounseling services. The rural area of Dakshin Dinajpur district, West Bengal, is not an newlineexception and a region marked by socio-economic challenges and traditional gender newlineroles. Domestic violence against women, both physical and emotional, remains a newlinecritical problem in these rural communities, deeply intertwined with cultural norms, newlineeconomic dependency, and limited access to education and resources. From this newlinebackdrop the present research sets its objective. The main objective of this present newlineresearch work is to explain the role of socio-economic and demographic factors newlineimplicating domestic violence among ever married women in rural parts of Dakshin newlineDinajpur District, West Bengal, India. Apart from types and forms of domestic violence newlineagainst women various factors connecting the links in between socio-economic and newlinedemographic characteristics, socio-cultural values and violence against women are newlineelaborately discussed. The role of women autonomy and empowerment on domestic newlineviolence against women also has been critically analyzed and how rural women s belief newlineand attitude towards domestic violence against women act as trigger