Effect Of Domestic Violence On Women Empowerment-Special Reference To Marginalized Women

Abstract

Women are considered to be the sub-ordinates of men in the society, from time immemorial. They are also prone to the domestic violence done against them. Domestic violence is an indicator of the violence of the basic human rights and is found to be dependent over the subordinating position of the women in society. Domestic violence is said to have terrible effects over the life of women in all aspects, which includes physical violence, sexual abuse and psychological violence. Hence, WHO (World Health Organization) had acknowledged domestic violence as the hidden global pandemic. Keeping these points in view, an attempt has been made in the study to explore the probable effect of domestic violence over the empowerment of women. Population of the study is the marginalized working women from Pondicherry. Simple random sampling method has been used to select the respondents and questionnaire has been issued to the sample population for data collection. Sample size is 100 and statistical tool adopted for analysis is Regression. Results of analysis proved that there is positive relationship between domestic violence and marginalized women empowerment.