The Impact and Trend Analysis of Domestic Violence against Women in Umedpur Union: A Sociological Investigation

Violence against Women is a one of the major threats in Rural Bangladesh. Regrettably, despite remarkable achievements in the field of women’s development and bearing a magnanimous history of women’s movement, incidences of violence against women are still burning issues. It is not easy to surmise whether violence against women has decreased or increased over the past decades because of lack of reliable survey, but in absolute term, the number of incidences is on the increase. The majority of women are domestically violated by their husbands, in-laws and other family members if she fails to be dowry demands or to perform household work. From the study, we have tried to make a sense about the types, reasons, and domestic violence against women in Umedpur Union, collecting data and analysis from different sources. For these reasons, we have selected 105 respondents to identify the socio-economic and demographic status and causes of domestic violence. Domestic violence invades the lives of many women both in the urban and the rural areas. Domestic violence takes many procedures and occurs in all settings, within the household, and in almost all cases, perpetrated by the patriarchal order. This study aims to find out the impact of violence in our society and cohere it with our social norms and values. Buried deep into the social structure which is underpinned by the patriarchal male-dominant ideology the roots of this violence. The higher incidence of dowry harassment and the deeply entrenched concept of family honor lead to a lot of concealed domestic violence in the upper socio-economic strata.