Skip to main content

ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Hum. Dyn.
Sec. Population, Environment and Development
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fhumd.2024.1390983

Breaking Chains Across Generations: Exploring the Nexus Between Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Domestic Violence among Indian Women

Provisionally accepted
Akanksha Choudhary Akanksha Choudhary 1*Ashish Singh Ashish Singh 2
  • 1 Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India
  • 2 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Introduction: In this article, authors have investigated the relationship between intergenerational educational mobility and the chances of experiencing domestic violence among Indian women. This perhaps is the first ever attempt to demonstrate this relationship not just in the Indian context but also in the global scholarship on domestic violence. Methods: The analysis is based on logistic regression using the data ‘India Youth Survey: Situation and Needs’. Authors have controlled for various individual, familial, and community-level factors in achieving the results. Results: Findings indicate that women who have more years of education than their mothers have significantly lesser chances of experiencing domestic violence. Furthermore, daughters whose mothers have been victims of domestic violence are highly likely to experience it themselves. Besides, women whose husbands consume alcohol, come from low income strata or live in nuclear families have significantly higher odds of experiencing domestic violence. Also, it was observed that the odds of experiencing domestic violence vary significantly for different castes, regions, religions as well as rural and urban areas. Insights from this study can contribute to policymaking aimed at empowering women through education, especially when their mothers haven't had a significant education. Additionally, the study further substantiates the role of factors such as maternal experience of domestic violence, husband's alcohol consumption, low income levels, and family structure in determining the likelihood of experiencing domestic violence. Therefore, the findings support existing scholarship for designing targeted interventions to address these specific risk factors, ultimately contributing to creating safer environments for women. Conclusion: Merely educational attainments do not affect the chances of domestic violence to a large extent. It is probably the confidence a woman derives on account of better educational attainments as compared to her previous generation that influences her take on the menace of domestic violence.

    Keywords: Domestic Violence, intergenerational educational mobility, Education, Women, India

    Received: 24 Feb 2024; Accepted: 15 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Choudhary and Singh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Akanksha Choudhary, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India

    Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.