Citation

Karim KMR, Law CK. J. Fam. Violence 2016; 31(2): 227-238.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10896-015-9763-1

PMID

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Abstract

Evidence on the relation between women's microcredit participation and their exposure to marital violence has been inconsistent across studies. This study examined how women's various levels of microcredit participation are associated with marital violence against women (MVW), while also taking into account the husbands' gender ideology. The study included 243 wife-abusive men in rural Bangladesh. Multiple regressions were performed to predict the frequency of MVW in the preceding year. Of the married women, 52.3 % were microcredit participants, 11.1 % of whom were active participants and 41.2 % nominal participants. The study showed that women's active microcredit participation was negatively associated with MVW, and nominal participation was positively associated with MVW among the husbands who held a more conservative gender ideology. The findings suggest that women-focused microcredit interventions should also take into account men's gender ideologies.

Language: en