Violence against women and the role of the governmental institutes to prevent it

ABSTRACT

1- The results show that about half of the ladies that had been married and in the reproductive age were subject to violence since they were 15 years old and that one of five ladies were subjected to violence during the last year of survey and their husbands are the main cause of this violence and with a less rate for mothers, fathers and brothers. 2- Body violence is considered the most spreading where one third of the ladies that had been married and were subject to body violence at least once from current marriage or the last, also 18% of the ladies were subject to violence during the last year of survey. 3- The result shows that about 18% of the ladies that had been married and subject to physically violence, also 10% of them had been subject to violence lately, 7% of the ladies stated that their husbands has forced them to have sex and that 4% of them were forced lately to it even. 4- The result shows that half of the ladies agreed that their husbands has all the reasons and right to hit his wife in any cause of this following If she burnet the food, if she argued with him, if she went out without his permission, if she were careless to the kids or if she refused to have sex, also 17% of the ladies believe that there is a good reason for beating due to the five reasons above. 5- The percentage of acceptance of beating the ladies increases in the rural areas compared to the urban areas, especially ladies living in rural Upper Egypt. 6- Also, Women in the lowest wealth quintile were more than three times as likely to consider wife beating to be justified for at last one of the reasons as women in the highest wealth quintile [74%, 23% respectively]