Abstract: Violence against women may take shocking forms from domestic abuse and rape to child marriage and female circumcision. This is an alarming situation. Even after so many efforts by our government especially, in the form of Domestic Violence Act, we are unable to culminate the problem completely. Keeping in view the intensity of the problem, the present study was undertaken with the objectives to study the types and extent of domestic violence against women and to isolate the causes of domestic violence. The study was conducted by selecting 120 women from urban slums of Hisar district of Haryana State. The data regarding personal profile of the respondents revealed that majority of the respondents were middle aged, married, belonging to joint family, illiterate, living in Kaccha house with low income. 90.00 per cent of the respondents face abusive language daily. It affects their children and about 90.00 per cent children suffer from fear followed by isolation (80.00%). The data also revealed that 56.60 per cent respondents were taunted for more dowry by husbands (86.60%). Poverty was the main reason told by 86.60 per cent of women.
Keywords: Domestic violence, decision making, women.
Title: EXTENT AND CAUSES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON SLUM WOMEN IN HISAR
Author: Rita Goel, Manju Dahiya, Deepti Kothari
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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