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<p>Women living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) confronts with disproportionately high burden of intimate partner violence (IPV), a global public health concern, which significantly impacts millions of women around the world. Despite such importance, there is very limited literature capturing the trends and revealing the patterns of women’s attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating, especially in the context of Bangladesh. This study investigates the socio-demographic factors correlated with the attitudinal acceptance of IPV and examines the trends and patterns persisting among women in Bangladesh using nationally representative data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) of 2011, 2014 and 2017-18, which are analyzed using the descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression model. The findings reveal a noticeable decline in attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating across the survey years though it varies in rural-urban contexts. More specifically, rural women experience 13.95% points decline in the prevalence of wife-beating (2011: 37.09%, 2017-18: 23.14%) while it declines by 10.68% points among the urban women (2011: 29.19%, 2017-18: 18.51%). Findings from multivariate regression model reveal that women in higher wealth index quintile show significantly lower acceptance of wife-beating compared to those from lower wealth index quintile, implying a negative association between them. Similar findings are also evident in case of educational qualification of women and their husband, i.e., the higher the level of their education, the lower the level of justifying wife-beating. The odds of attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating are higher among rural women than their urban counterparts, implying a significant women’s empowerment gap regarding their residential areas. Therefore, policies prioritizing education for rural women would help reduce the prevailing attitudes towards wife-beating in Bangladesh. It is also necessary to disseminate women’s rights and establish social justice through increased access to media and information with a view to reducing the attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating in Bangladesh.</p>

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Trends and patterns in women’s attitude towards wife-beating in Bangladesh: insights from three waves nationally representative survey

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    2025年7月9日

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  • Md. Saiful Islam,
  • Muhammad Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee,
  • Md. Rezaul Karim Shohag

摘要

Women living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) confronts with disproportionately high burden of intimate partner violence (IPV), a global public health concern, which significantly impacts millions of women around the world. Despite such importance, there is very limited literature capturing the trends and revealing the patterns of women’s attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating, especially in the context of Bangladesh. This study investigates the socio-demographic factors correlated with the attitudinal acceptance of IPV and examines the trends and patterns persisting among women in Bangladesh using nationally representative data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) of 2011, 2014 and 2017-18, which are analyzed using the descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression model. The findings reveal a noticeable decline in attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating across the survey years though it varies in rural-urban contexts. More specifically, rural women experience 13.95% points decline in the prevalence of wife-beating (2011: 37.09%, 2017-18: 23.14%) while it declines by 10.68% points among the urban women (2011: 29.19%, 2017-18: 18.51%). Findings from multivariate regression model reveal that women in higher wealth index quintile show significantly lower acceptance of wife-beating compared to those from lower wealth index quintile, implying a negative association between them. Similar findings are also evident in case of educational qualification of women and their husband, i.e., the higher the level of their education, the lower the level of justifying wife-beating. The odds of attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating are higher among rural women than their urban counterparts, implying a significant women’s empowerment gap regarding their residential areas. Therefore, policies prioritizing education for rural women would help reduce the prevailing attitudes towards wife-beating in Bangladesh. It is also necessary to disseminate women’s rights and establish social justice through increased access to media and information with a view to reducing the attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating in Bangladesh.