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Table 3.10 Women's agreement with reasons for wife beating
Percentage of women who agree with specific reasons justifying a husband hitting or beating his wife and
percentage
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who agree with at least one of the reasons, by background characteristics, Ethiopia 2000
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Reasons justifying a husband hitting or beating his wife
Agrees
Goes out
with at
Burns Argues without Neglects Refuses least one
Background the with telling the sexual specified
characteristic
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food him him children relations reason Number
Age
15-19
20-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-44
45-49
Current marital status
Never married
Married or living together
Divorced, separated,
widowed
Number of living
children
0
1-2
3-4
5+
Residence
Urban
Rural
Region
Tigray
Affar
Amhara
Oromiya
Somali
Benishangul-Gumuz
SNNP
Gambela
Harari
Addis Ababa
Dire Dawa
Education
No education
Primary
Secondary and higher
Employment
Not employed
Employed for cash
Employed not for cash
All women
62.6 59.1 52.9 62.8 43.5 82.1 3,710
64.1 61.4 56.4 64.3 49.5 84.5 2,860
63.0 61.5 55.4 63.7 52.1 83.9 2,585
66.7 63.5 57.9 65.2 54.2 85.3 1,841
64.3 60.9 57.1 67.6 53.5 85.2 1,716
64.7 60.9 57.6 64.3 56.2 85.6 1,392
70.2 65.3 61.5 66.9 58.9 89.6 1,264
57.7 53.5 49.4 60.3 38.7 77.9 3,688
67.9 64.7 59.4 66.4 55.9 87.3 9,789
59.5 59.2 52.5 63.1 48.5 83.0 1,890
59.6 56.2 51.2 61.5 42.5 80.4 5,191
66.0 62.8 56.7 64.7 53.3 85.6 3,882
67.3 64.9 59.1 67.7 55.6 87.1 3,032
67.7 64.4 60.7 66.2 56.9 87.4 3,262
41.0 39.6 38.2 51.6 29.0 69.0 2,791
69.7 66.1 60.2 67.4 55.7 87.9 12,576
57.7 56.5 55.9 68.1 41.0 85.7 969
72.6 71.1 70.6 75.0 70.5 85.7 178
66.6 67.9 59.4 65.1 51.6 88.4 3,820
64.7 62.2 55.5 61.5 54.0 84.1 5,937
48.8 61.5 63.9 65.2 52.0 80.6 175
70.4 61.4 59.0 68.7 51.1 85.0 160
73.2 62.3 60.1 73.4 55.2 87.6 3,285
57.1 54.4 52.7 56.5 36.1 83.4 40
28.7 25.8 17.7 28.6 19.9 49.8 41
23.3 20.8 22.9 40.0 11.8 54.4 684
42.2 46.7 44.0 55.3 37.8 66.9 79
69.5 65.6 60.4 67.0 56.2 88.1 11,551
61.6 59.6 53.0 65.8 44.8 83.0 2,425
27.4 28.3 27.0 41.8 17.1 56.9 1,391
63.7 59.5 54.8 62.5 49.6 84.0 5,630
60.1 56.9 52.6 63.9 47.1 81.4 3,852
68.0 65.9 59.9 66.8 54.5 87.0 5,885
64.5 61.3 56.2 64.5 50.9 84.5 15,367
the children. A slightly smaller percentage agree that if a woman argues with her husband (61 percent)
or goes out without telling him (56 percent), then he is justified in beating her. One in two women
believe that a husband is justified in beating his wife if she refuses to have sex with him. The percentage
of women who agree with at least one of the reasons justifying a husband beating his wife is slightly
higher if the woman is older; married; has one or more children; or if she is employed, but not for cash.
The differences are more notable by level of education and urban-rural residence. Educated women and
urban women are less likely to agree that a man is justified in beating his wife for any reason at all
compared with uneducated women. For example, 57 percent of women with secondary and higher
education agree with at least one specified reason, compared with 88 percent of uneducated women
32 * Respondent’s Characteristics and Status