Association between gap in spousal education and domestic violence in India and Bangladesh
Open Access
- 21 June 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 12 (1) , 467
Abstract
Domestic violence (DV) against women is a serious human rights abuse and well recognised global public health concern. The occurrence of DV is negatively associated with the educational level of spouses but studies dealing with educational discrepancies of spouses show contradicting results: Wives with higher education than their husbands were more likely to ever experience DV as compared to equally educated couples. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between spousal education gap (SEG) and the prevalence and severity of DV in India and Bangladesh.Keywords
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