Citation

Watto SA. Eur. J. Sci. Res. 2009; 36(4): 561-569.

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(Copyright © 2009, EuroJournals)

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Abstract

This study has examined differential significance of the multiple dimensions of conventional patriarchal ideology of gender relations as predictors of perpetrating male physical violence against women. Mainly, opposition to gender equality and women's autonomy, linking women's sexuality with family honor, religious orientations towards treating women as subordinate partners, and approval to violence against women were identified as multiple dimensions of conventional patriarchal ideology of gender relations. It has been hypothesized that: i) adherence to conventional patriarchal ideology of gender relations, as a single summative index of its multiple dimensions, is inexplicit predictor of perpetrating male physical violence against women; and ii) it undermines the differential significance of its multiple dimensions (sub-measures) as direct predictors of physically violent conduct of men with women. Data was collected from the randomly selected male heads of the households (n=400) from rural and urban settings of district Gujrat, Pakistan. Application of Pearson Correlation revealed that all the multiple dimensions of conventional patriarchal ideology of gender relations were not significantly correlated with the propensity of perpetrating male physical violence against women. However, as a single summative index of its sub-measures (multiple dimensions) the level of adherence to conventional patriarchal ideology of gender relations was strongly correlated with its sub- measures as well as the varying propensity of perpetrating physical violence against women. Hence, the findings substantiated the hypotheses.