WOMEN ABUSE

Women Abuse

Women Abuse

Introduction

Women still in this century are denied of their basic human rights, mainly in developing countries leading to increase in the incidents of women abuse. The term abuse is used when people belonging to a particular group, community, gender, race, ethnicity, origin or age are not allowed to live the life in accordance with the rights granted by the constitution of the country. The most common form of women abuse is domestic violence (Smith and Segal, 2013). Violence against women has been one of the major concerns of developed and developing countries. In this connection, this paper is going to critically evaluate the issue of women abuse and will also discuss some relevant theories, so that nature of the issue can be determined and recommendations can be generated to curb this issue.

Discussion and Analysis

Every human relationship in which the balance of power is disrupted potentially affects a relationship in which violence can be expressed by a more powerful individual or group against the one who does not have the power. Violence occurs at different levels, ranging from global society through institutional level to everyday life in the primary group. On the last level of everyday interaction, violence can occur in all areas of human endeavor in partnership, parent - child, teacher - student, doctor - patient, and employer - employee (Straus, 2005). Violence in a relationship depends on many factors, but it is important to realize that the one, who has the power, has the choice of whether to use violence as the responsibility for violence is always on the side of the powerful.

In cultures with the ideal of dominance particularly in patriarchal societies, which are all contemporary global society, it is highly valued struggle for power and dominance over the weaker. Global societies differ in many points, but they are the lowest common denominator of patriarchy (Bass & Davis, 1988). Therefore, the parallels between them can be established primarily through gender relations, these relations are, however, consist of such imbalances and asymmetries, which are not random but are essential for the survival and reproduction of the whole society and have a conservative effect. Patriarchy is not gender neutral system works and the way that the system introduces a hierarchical society and inequality, especially in the line of gender (Campbell, 1998). This system favors men while women are systematically marginalized, so that the entire half of the world's population at any point of the patriarchal social space threatens major risks that are systematically designed.

Women Abuse and Women Abusers

Studies have shown that abused women are a very vulnerable group in society and that violence is a common feature of these women's lives (Smith and Segal, 2013; Campbell, 1998). However, it is not necessary that the women's partners may expose them to violence and abuse, but she may become victim of abuse in certain other scenarios (Gomberg & Nirenberg, 1993). The women are treated not infrequently of incomprehension and ignorance but sometimes exposed to abuse and ...