Marital Violence, Human development and Women’s Property Status in India
Full Citation: Panda, P. and Agarwal, B., “Marital Violence, Human Development and Women’s Property Status in India,” 33(5) WORLD DEVELOPMENT 850 (2005).
Marital Violence, Human development and Women’s Property Status in India
Summary: If development means the expansion of human capabilities, then freedom from domestic violence should be an integral part of any exercise for evaluating developmental progress. This paper focuses on a hitherto unexplored factor underlying women’s risk of marital violence, namely, women’s property status. Many studies have examined the scale and correlates of marital violence,