Factors affecting on violence against married women in Palestine

Abstract

The aim of the study is to examine, the relationship between the gender-based violence and the through some socio-geographical variables for married couples in Gaza - Palestine. By assessing the effect of age, education, working status and number of family on violence against married women in Gaza - Palestine. To achieve these issues the study develops a questionnaire-based survey was designed the analysis in empirical descriptive analysis. Which considers the gender based violence as dependent while the other variable as independent variables. The questionnaire was collected from (250) respondents by using google form. The result of the study showed that there is negative relationship between education and violence against married women in Gaza - Palestine. On the other, the analysis support hypothesis 2, on the other hand the result showed that no relationship between number of family and violence against married women in Gaza - Palestine.  Therefore, this study makes a novel contribution by offering a detailed and deeper understanding of the effect of socio-economic and demographic variables on violence against married women in Gaza - Palestine. According to the result, the study recommended that future researches might investigate if there are other possible variables that may also effect on the violence against married women in Gaza - Palestine.