Adhikary and Dutta

Review of Selected Literature

The study of domestic violence is multidisciplinary in nature. This section has

cited some relevant studies of this present paper. Education, higher socio-economic

status, non-Muslim religion and extended family structure reduce the risks of

domestic violence in rural areas. Higher the women’s autonomy and short-term

membership in saving and credit groups, lower is the risk of violence in culturally

conservative area whereas it is uncorrelated in less culturally conservative area of

Bangladesh (Koenig, Ahmed, Hossain and Mozumder, 2003). In Uttar Pradesh

childlessness, economic pressure, and intergenerational transmission of violence

increase the risk of physical and sexual domestic violence, whereas higher socio-

economic position of household reduces it. Besides, a community environment

of violent crime and Community-level norms concerning wife beating were

significantly associated with more risks of both physical (Koenig, Stephenson,

Ahmed, Jejeebhoy and Campbell, 2006). The study of Sarkar (2010) has explored

that maximum prevalence of domestic violence was observed among 30-39 years

age group, illiterate and unmarried females in Hooghly district, West Bengal. He

has also reported that prevalence of domestic violence is higher among the Muslim

women than the Hindu women. The frequency of domestic violence among the

unmarried females or the women who fail to give birth of child is higher than other

women. However, the study examining the impact of women’s empowerment on

their domestic violence is still uncommon in existing literature. In this context, the

present study is entrusted with three objectives.

¾ First, we study the nature of economic empowerment of the rural women in

the district of Bankura.

¾ Second, this study explores the determinants of domestic violence in the

district of Bankura.

¾ Third, we would like to examine the impact of economic and political

empowerment along with other socio-economic-demographic traits on the

probability of the incidence of domestic violence.

Table 2. Results of KMO and Bartlett’s Test for Sample Adequacy for Factor

Analysis

KMO and Bartlett’s Test

Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy.

0.597

Approx. Chi-Square

351.957

Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity

df

36

Sig.

0

Source: Authors’ computation based on primary data, 2010

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