Women who overturn gender norms face more violence in marriage: Study

Domestic violence has become the most common form of abuse inflicted on women--it affects one in three women globally.

Women whose economic status equals or exceeds that of their husbands are more likely to face domestic violence, a recent study has found. The study also finds causal evidence that such women have a more assertive role in decision-making and men use violence to re-establish the patriarchal power balance.

Married women are 14% more likely to face domestic violence if they go against the convention of hypergamy--the idea that women seek to marry men of higher social stature--when compared to women in hypergamous marriages, says a working paper by researchers from the University of Nottingham, UK and the Indian Institute