Does economic empowerment protect women from intimate partner violence?
Does economic empowerment protect women from intimate partner violence?
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DOI：
10.5249/jivr.v3i1.76
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2011-01
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Dalal K
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Dalal K
目前的研究比较了工作和非工作的妇女群体与亲密伴侣暴力的关系。本文旨在通过一个具有全国代表性的印度样本，探讨女性经济赋权、暴露于IPV与求助行为之间的关系。这是一项横断面研究，对象是印度所有29个成员国的124,385名已婚育龄妇女。卡方检验被用来检验因变量(暴露于IPV)和自变量比例的差异。多元Logistic回归用于评估经济赋权变量在预测暴露于IPV中的独立贡献。在124,385名妇女中，有69432人(56%)符合这项研究的条件。在符合条件的人中，35%的人在工作。总体而言，印度妇女的IPV患病率为：情感暴力占14%，较轻的身体暴力占31%，严重的身体暴力占10%，性暴力占8%。职业女性的IPV患病率为：情感暴力18%，较轻的身体暴力37%，严重的身体暴力14%，性暴力10%；而非职业女性的这一比例分别为12%、27%、8%和8%。职业女性从不同的来源寻求更多的帮助。经济赋权并不是唯一的保护因素。经济赋权，再加上高等教育和修改后的针对妇女的文化规范，可能会保护妇女免受感染。
The current study compared working and non-working groups of women in relation to intimate partner violence. The paper aims to explore the relationship between women's economic empowerment, their exposures to IPV and their help seeking behavior using a nationally representative sample in India. This was a cross sectional study of 124,385 ever married women of reproductive age from all 29 member states in India. Chi-square tests were used to examine differences in proportions of dependent variables (exposure to IPV) and independent variables. Multivariate logistic regressions were used to assess the independent contribution of the variables of economic empowerment in predicting exposure to IPV. Out of 124,385 women, 69432 (56%) were eligible for this study. Among those that were eligible 35% were working. In general, prevalence of IPV (ever) among women in India were: emotional violence 14%, less severe physical violence 31%, severe physical violence 10% and sexual violence 8%. For working women, the IPV prevalence was: emotional violence 18%, less severe physical violence 37%, severe physical violence 14% and sexual violence 10%; whilst for non-working women the rate was 12, 27, 8 and 8 percents, respectively. Working women seek more help from different sources. Economic empowerment is not the sole protective factor. Economic empowerment, together with higher education and modified cultural norms against women, may protect women from IPV.