Why are men in India beating their wives more often?

Question

According to a new study, men in India beat and murder their wives more often the more educated women become. Why?
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1591

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=56501

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6086334.stm

http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2006statements/528/

My question is, why would men treat better educated wives worse? Does anyone know if that is correlational? Or, is the rise in abuse in that regard related to other social factors?

Answer 1

'why would men treat better educated wives worse?'

Simple. The more educated the women become, the less likely they are to accept the status quo - which for Indian women, is and always was - a nightmare scenario. I have come accross numerous articles suggesting that a reactionary movement threatens the advances women have made in that country. 'Man in Search of Direction' is an excellent example of this phenomena at work. The more Indian women speak up, the more threatened and repressive the Patriarchy becomes; this is 'backlash' at its worst.

Here it is in a nutshell:
‘Men have always been taught to perceive themselves as the superior sex, said Jyotsna Chatterjee, director of the Joint Women's Program, a women's resource organization based in New Delhi. It is this conditioning, she said, that makes them believe they have to control their wives, especially if they are considered disobedient.’
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1591

The violence is not limited to India. In Canada, Indo-Canadian communities have a much higher-then-average rate of wife abuse. Here is a CBC article about this very subject: since it was published yet MORE Indian women have been murdered by male family members. This article illustrates the critical need of female police officers - especially ones familiar with the culture and language of the victims:

“More than 1,500 people heard harrowing stories of domestic beatings of women in the Indo-Canadian community at a forum in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday night.
They packed a banquet hall to talk about the problem, which has gained urgency in recent weeks after two killings and an attempted murder, all involving Canadian women of South Asian descent. Radio India, a Punjabi radio station based in Surrey, hosted the forum.

Several women said isolation, shame and cultural barriers have hidden the problem of domestic violence in the community. Political leaders, including B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal, listened to their stories and promised to take action.

Babita Chumber, who spoke at the forum, said her six-year marriage started with high hopes but quickly became a nightmare.

"My husband would spit on me, kick me, emotionally degrade me. I would go to work with bruises. Pieces of hair would be out of my head and I would cover it up because of the shame that is involved," she said.
Kavinder Lehal said she was beaten and threatened with knives and a gun during her 11-year marriage. Lehail said many South Asian women stay in abusive relationships out of fear they will bring shame to their families.

"You're not shaming your husband or his family. He shames his family when he raises his hand on you. He shames his family when he beats you up," she said.
Oppal, who is Indo-Canadian, said the gathering shows the south Asian community is coming to terms with a problem that has been hushed up for years.

"Most of this is acknowledging the fact this exists. There is denial in the community, face-saving," he said.
Oppal said he hopes the forum, where so many women told their stories, will give others the courage to come forward.

In the last two weeks, two married Indo-Canadian mothers have been found dead in the Lower Mainland. Navreet Kaur Waraich was stabbed to death in Surrey, and Manjit Panghali's burned body was found along a highway near a busy container terminal in Delta.

In another incident, Gurjeet Kaur Ghuman was shot in the face by her estranged husband in Port Coquitlam. He died after turning the gun on himself. She remains in critical condition.’

'Domestic abuse hidden among Indo-Canadians: forum'
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/11/03/domestic-abuse.html

Read about the lastest Canadian West Coast murder victim - a 41 year old elementary school principal at:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/07/15/murder-hirji.html

HOW'S THAT FOR AN 'AGENDA'? Nobody disputes the suffering these women endure...well, ok...

Morons in denial might, but that's it.

India is NOT a developed, western country and to pretend otherwise is to miss the point. It is an ancient culture(s). Society is strictly heirarchical.

Check out India's abysmal human-rights record at:
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78871.htm
There are many more where that came from.

Answer 2

Men who beat anything ussually are the type of persona that lacks basic fundemantal gray matter growth coupled with alcohal and / or drugs. Tic Toc bang. Dood guestion. Coming from a man I would say in my opinion that men, in general, since the beginning of time are hunter gatherers and more specifically womans rights of equality in america was not that long ago and even then that does not mean that that is really being done. Social, economical,social status, upbringing, moral ethics, relogion, educational level. nothing Ive ever seen or read can put a finger on this. All I know is that it is progreesive and any of the first warning signs should not be taken lightly for any reason. Run do not walk away.

Answer 3

In cultures like that men are taught to be superior and women are taught to respect and obey the men. So when a women shows sign of independence the man loses the feeling that he has gotten form his partner which is never to contidict or say anything basically so they feel the need to regain the power and in that culture if a women tried to run away or get help she would end up in a worse situation.

Answer 4

What you are seeing, if indeed this is a valid result, which I doubt very much, is an increased rate of reporting - educated urban women are far more likely to complain about a beating than a terrifed and ignorant village woman. However, I doubt this statistic.

Answer 5

Educational study done by University of New Hampshire shows India women severly abusing men more.
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41H3a.pdf

Let's not use biased and sexist stats please.

As far as your question itself: It states that women who own property(tangible economic assets) are much less likely to be abused.... are you saying that the uneducated are the land owners over there? That's odd. That country has an enormous amount of problems if their people lose their tangible economic assets, the more educated they become.

Apart from all of this: It is good that they passed the legislation to give women more freedom from abuse. No one should be abused, whether it's man or woman. Despite the contradictions in biased feminists stats, I still think this is a good step in the right direction for Human Rights, in general. But why does it only protect women? It's just a shame that their human rights activists are sexist feminists.

Answer 6

After working all day as "tech support" for Dell, Norton and the rest of the computer industry, their nerves are shot.

Answer 7

your article is outdated.
lets see: where are the stats, would you kindly point them out to me from an official source ?

These are false statistics denied by UN herself and Washington Post also apologized after publishing these stats.
http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20061113.php
http://newsbyus.com/more.php?id=6235_0_1_0_M
www.498a.org
There are plenty of publications which show that men are abused equally, but news papers never report it.
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41E2.pdf
This is the most hopeless law biased against men.

http://www.expressindia.com/messages.php?newsid=56501#171818
The said report has been proven to be an unscientific study.

Please stop all the feminist propaganda and make laws that deliver justice to women and men and promote family harmony. This law will only break families as guys will be now reluctant to marry and will make pre-nupital contracts. I resent that a relationship that should be based on love and trust is being made a joke by, as Karan Thapar puts it, "asinine laws".

http://www.expressindia.com/messages.php?newsid=56501#171894

Fact: semi knowledge is dangerous. In india there is no section to record the complains of husbands and his relatives against tortouring wife. Hence no statistics is available on this front at all.

Further it is found that facilities of police complaints given to the women in india have been misused with conviction rate of only 2% (renuka chodhury agreed on IBN-CNN). A statement of women to the police becomes criminal complaint and also reflects in the national statistics with only 2% conviction.

on false figures of 70% women victim to DV in india, washington times has already confessed on 29th nov 06 w r t the release in the papers on 14th nov 06 that they did not have any source to prove this figure.

pls complete your homework and issue an apology and a corrigendum. they have already done this.

you may follow this link
http://washingtontimes.com/corrections/20061128-102228-2806r.htm

request: pls be gender sensitive, indian husbands are humans too.

ahh since your first article was proven to be completely bogus, I don't see the need to read anymore of the links provided by an obviously biased person.

[edit]
Surely you yourself know the agenda you are trying to churn out, right ??
You may believe you are right, but I still disagree with you anyway. I notice that the first article paints a situation that is horrible, that appeals to people in an emotional manner but yet hardly makes references to the original report, which is intellectually dishonest considering how the "report" was later denied by the UN.