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: Received: 23 April 2021 / Approved: 26 April 2021 / Online: 26 April 2021 (20:59:09 CEST)
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kataybeh, Y. Male Violence Against Women: An Exploratory Study of Its Manifestations, Causes, and Discrepancies over Jordanian Women under Corona Pandemic. Preprints2021, 2021040695. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202104.0695.v1
kataybeh, Y. Male Violence Against Women: An Exploratory Study of Its Manifestations, Causes, and Discrepancies over Jordanian Women under Corona Pandemic. Preprints 2021, 2021040695. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202104.0695.v1
kataybeh, Y. Male Violence Against Women: An Exploratory Study of Its Manifestations, Causes, and Discrepancies over Jordanian Women under Corona Pandemic. Preprints2021, 2021040695. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202104.0695.v1
APA Style
kataybeh, Y. (2021). Male Violence Against Women: An Exploratory Study of Its Manifestations, Causes, and Discrepancies over Jordanian Women under Corona Pandemic. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202104.0695.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
kataybeh, Y. 2021 "Male Violence Against Women: An Exploratory Study of Its Manifestations, Causes, and Discrepancies over Jordanian Women under Corona Pandemic" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202104.0695.v1
Abstract
Objectives: The study aimed to uncover the percentages of battered women in Jordan, its causes, forms, and relationship to several social factors. Methodology: The study was conducted on a random, targeted sample of (1308) women based on social sample survey method and electronic questionnaire tool for data collection, the Descriptive statistical method and chi-square test were used to examine statistically significant differences. Results: The study found that the percentage of battered women reached 17.1% during Corona pandemic in 2020, and the increase in men's violence against women during this period of was in large and medium degrees according to the sample. Husbands were the most practicing violence against their wives at 37.5%, followed by fathers against daughters at 28.6%, and brothers against sisters at 26.8%. The causes of male violence are due to social factors represented by male domination culture, interference by family and relatives, and economic factors represented by the high cost of living, low household income and poverty. The most common forms of violence are verbal, physical, and psychological. The study found that women in southern Jordan, who are poorer and less educated, and who live in a large family, are the most abused. The study recommended activating family and community service and reform offices, solving problems of deteriorating economic situation and individual poverty, and enlightening community awareness of the dangers of domestic violence.
Keywords
Domestic violence, crimes against women, the impact of Corona on the family, male domination, women in Jordanian culture
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Accounting and Taxation
Copyright:
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