Determinants of wife-beating acceptance among reproductive age women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey

Arefaynie, Mastewal; Bitew, Gedamnesh; Amsalu, Erkihun Tadesse; Kefale, Bereket; Muche, Amare; Fentaw, Zinabu; Dewau, Reta; Melaku, Mequannent Sharew; Yalew, Melaku; Adane, Metadel; Chanie, Muluken Genetu; Ayele, Wolde Melese; Damtie, Yitayish

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“…We analyzed data from the 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) data. Intimate partner violence (IPV), which is violence that occurs between people in sexual or romantic relationships, harms the victim’s physical, sexual or psychological health [ 4 – 6 , 30 ].…”

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Effect of justification of wife-beating on experiences of intimate partner violence among men and women in Uganda: A propensity-score matched analysis of the 2016 Demographic Health Survey data

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Introduction In some communities, rationalization of men’s controlling attitudes is associated with the justification of gender norms such as wife-beating as a method of correcting spouse behaviour. In this quasi-experimental study, we investigate the causal effects of the acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating on experiences of sexual, emotional, and physical intimate partner violence (IPV) among Ugandan men and women. Methods and materials We analysed the 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey data using propensity-score matching. The exposure variable is the acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating measured on a binary scale and the outcomes are the respondent’s lifetime experiences of sexual, physical, and emotional IPV. We matched respondents who accepted gender norms justifying wife-beating with those that never through a 1:1 nearest-neighbour matching with a caliper to achieve comparability on selected covariates. We then estimated the causal effects of acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating on the study outcomes using a logistic regression model. Results Results showed that a total of 4,821 (46.5%) out of 10,394 respondents reported that a husband is justified in beating his wife for specific reasons. Among these, the majority (3,774; 78.3%) were women compared to men (1,047; 21.7%). Overall, we found that men and women who accept gender norms justifying wife-beating are more likely to experience all three forms of IPV. In the sub-group analysis, men who justify wife-beating were more likely to experience emotional and physical IPV but not sexual IPV. However, women who justify wife-beating were more likely to experience all three forms of IPV. Conclusions In conclusion, the acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating has a positive effect on experiences of different forms of IPV by men and women in Uganda. There is, therefore, a need for more research to study drivers for acceptance of gender norms justifying wife-beating to enable appropriate government agencies to put in place mechanisms to address the acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating at the societal level.

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Effect of justification of wife-beating on experiences of intimate partner violence among men and women in Uganda: A propensity-score matched analysis of the 2016 Demographic Health Survey data

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“…Gender-based violence (GBV) of any form perpetrated against a woman or girl, man or boy harms their physical, sexual or psychological health [4,25]. In this paper, we investigated the causal effects of acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating on the life-time experiences of sexual, emotional, or physical intimate partner violence (IPV) among Ugandan men and women using a quasi-experimental design with propensity-score matched (PSM) analysis.…”

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Effect of justification of wife-beating on experiences of intimate-partner violence among men and women in Uganda: A propensity matched scores approach

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In some communities, rationalization of men’s controlling attitudes are associated with justification of gender norms such as wife-beating as a method of correcting spouse behaviour. In this quasi-experimental study, we investigate the causal effects of acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating on experiences of sexual, emotional and physical intimate partner violence (IPV) among Ugandan men and women. We analysed the 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey data using propensity-score matching. The exposure variable is acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating measured on binary scale and the outcomes are respondent’s life-time experiences of sexual, physical, and emotional IPV. We matched respondents who accepted gender norms justifying wife-beating with those that do not using 1:1 nearest neighbor matching with a caliper to achieve comparability on selected covariates. We then estimated the causal effects of acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating on the study outcomes using a logistic regression model. Results showed that of the 4,821 (46.5%) out 10,394 respondents who reported that a husband is justified in beating his wife for specific reasons, the majority (3,774; 78.3%) were women compared to men (1,047; 21.7%). We found that at population level, men and women who accept gender norms justifying wife-beating are about 1.5 times more likely to experience each of the three forms of IPV. In the sub-group analysis, men who justify wife-beating were more likely to experience emotional and physical IPV but not sexual IPV. However, women who justify wife-beating were more likely to report experiences all of the three forms of IPV. In conclusion, acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating has a positive effect on experiences of different forms of IPV by men and women in Uganda. Government should tackle the drivers of acceptability of gender norms justifying wife-beating at the societal level.

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“…The same sort of influence of mass media on attitudes towards women as full human beings can be seen in Ethiopia (Arefaynie et al 2021). In a study that examines attitudes toward wife beating, one of the best predictors of the acceptability of this practice is the relative absence of exposure to television.…”

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Editor’s Introduction: Learning from Movies About Women, Patriarchy, and Resistance

2022

American J Econ Sociol

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This is the second and final issue in a series on the ways in which movies and television dramas orient our perceptions of social and economic issues. Other issues were planned, but this year ( 2022) is my final year as editor-in-chief of AJES. New editors will pursue ideas of their own. This issue is devoted to film and TV narratives that challenge the roles assigned to women. To engage with this topic in a meaningful way requires a recognition of the limits of objective analysis. Dramatic fiction captures elements that elude positivist research. At a minimum, art can provide insights that provide new avenues of empirical research. Science involves both the objectivity to minimize the bias in the outcomes of an investigation and the subjectivity to make judgments about what constitutes a topic worthy of investigation. Positivist research, when isolated from self-conscious subjectivty, is only half the story. Disinterested research-what C. Wright Mills called "abstracted empiricism"-lacks the power of conviction.To analyze gender roles and other issues that evoke strong emotional reactions requires methods that take into account the reflexivity of the investigation. Questioning gender roles throws identity into question for a large portion of the world's population. It is absurd to imagine that this topic can be examined exclusively in an objective framework. The analysis of dramas that challenge gender constructs raises questions about our own lives. The source of knowledge thus shifts from object to subject. Knowledge that arises out of direct experience can capture the conflicts, contradictions, and subtleties that positivist, data-driven methodologies often lack. Direct knowledge also draws upon facets of experience that are often left out of formal accounts in which the corporeal existence of the author seems to disappear.Because gender issues are emotionally charged, making films or TV series that challenge viewers is quite difficult. The very

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Determinants of wife-beating acceptance among reproductive age women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey

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Effect of justification of wife-beating on experiences of intimate partner violence among men and women in Uganda: A propensity-score matched analysis of the 2016 Demographic Health Survey data

Effect of justification of wife-beating on experiences of intimate partner violence among men and women in Uganda: A propensity-score matched analysis of the 2016 Demographic Health Survey data

Effect of justification of wife-beating on experiences of intimate-partner violence among men and women in Uganda: A propensity matched scores approach

Editor’s Introduction: Learning from Movies About Women, Patriarchy, and Resistance

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