TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Women's status and domestic violence in rural Bangladesh: individual- and community-level effects
JO  - Demography
A1  - Hossain, Mian Bazle
A1  - Mozumder, A. B. M. Khorshed Alam
A1  - Ahmed, Saifuddin
A1  - Koenig, Michael Alan
SP  - 269
EP  - 288
VL  - 40
IS  - 2
N2  - We explore the determinants of domestic violence in two rural areas of Bangladesh. We found increased education, higher socioeconomic status, non-Muslim religion, and extended family residence to be associated with lower risks of violence. The effects of women's status on violence was found to be highly context-specific. In the more culturally conservative area, higher individual-level women's autonomy and short-term membership in savings and credit groups were both associated with significantly elevated risks of violence, and community-level variables were unrelated to violence. In the less culturally conservative area, in contrast, individual-level women's status indicators were unrelated to the risk of violence, and community-level measures of women's status were associated with significantly lower risks of violence, presumably by reinforcing nascent normative changes in gender relations.<p /> 
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SN  - 0070-3370
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0014
ID  - ref1
ER  -