Domestic Violence against Women in Bangladesh: A comparative Study on the perception of Educated and Non-educated Class

Abstract

This paper tries to analyze perception of educated and non-educated class about domestic violence against women .To know the objectives, descriptive research design has been followed. Quantitative and qualitative method has been used. For quantitative method, survey method has been used and for qualitative method, case study method has been used. Here, the Likert scaling (1-to-5 rating scale) has been applied for some variables. On the contrary, for qualitative analysis, some case study is conducted through interview guides. Sample size is found out by applying systematic random sampling using specific formula because several areas are used as the research area. Data has been analyzed by using SPSS, Univariate and bivariate has been done. For hypotheses testing, F- test used to test the degree to which two or more groups vary or differ in an experiment. Most of the respondents (50.4%) think that violence means physical and mental torture but only 8% thinks it means physical, mental and verbal abuse. Again, 14.4% respondents view in that violence means doing anything against one will. 95.2% respondents say that there in difference in the forms of violence between and in laws house when only 4.8% find no difference. Only 27% educated and 9.8% non-educated respondents opined that dowry is the main reason of domestic violence, 2.7% educated and 5.9% non-educated told that women are the enemies of women, 18.9% educated and 11.8% non-educated told that only because of poverty domestic violence takes place. 21.6% educated and 25.5% non-educated respondents think that for women’s suppression tradition and custom is responsible. This study may help to government to take appropriate policy to stop the domestic violence against women.