Attitudes of Working and Non-working Women about Domestic Violence: An Analytic Study of Hyderabad

Abstract

The present study was conducted to evaluate the attitudes of working women about domestic violence in Hyderabad. The sample composed of 100 respondents (i-e 50 married working women and 50 unmarried working women). During conducting the research Domestic violence Questionnaire applied, which is prepared by researcher self, its validity is measured by spilt half reliability method (r=0.8) which shows that it is reliable. Data were analyzed by statistically methods. By Statistically analysis of married working women’s score, the mean is 14.76 and the mean of unmarried working women’s score is 13.4. The standard deviation of married working women is 2.952 and the standard deviation of unmarried working women is 2.68. This research findings conformed assumption and proved that the married and unmarried working women’s attitudes about domestic violence is similar, there is no difference among their attitudes and both are realized women’s right and conditions and the issue of domestic violence.