Domestic violence is pervasive in the Egyptians’ family life. Married women have experienced tremendous violence at the hands of the person who is meant to love them the most, their husbands. These women often suffer in silence, as domestic violence is perceived as a private matter. The forms of violence perpetrated against Egyptian women are physical abuse, sexual abuse, financial violence, emotional violence, and honour killing. Similar to China, Egypt lacks a state-sponsored data or study on domestic violence.
Data from 2005 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) found that physical violence is the most common form of marital violence in Egypt. Among the respondents, more than seven in ten women (72.1%) of the 5612 ever-married women …show more content…
Therefore the most researched form of domestic violence. According to Kharboush et al. (2010:3), physical abuse in the country is commonly expressed in the forms of slapping and beating, kicking and dragging on the floor, strangling and burning and pushing and grasping of hair. As well as these, some women were attacked with weapons such as knives or guns. The consequence is the resulting injury the victim endures. Besides physical abuse, sexual abuse is another form of violence perpetrated against Egyptian women. According to Kharboush et al. (2010:4), the expression of sexual abuse manifest as marital rape, in which husbands force their wives into sex against their will. Another form of expression is the husbanding demanding of sex even when the wife is …show more content…
Due to lack of employment opportunity for most married women in Egypt, they become financially dependent on their spouse. As a result of this dependency, women are subjected to various forms of economic abuse. According to Kharboush et al. (2010:4) and Mamdouh et al., (2012:1121), husbands force their wives to beg for money while, some husbands refuse to spend money on their wives, and are forced by their husbands to borrow money from parents and relatives. Women who work are not immune to economic abuses from their husband. Women who work may be required by their husband to give him all her earnings. The husband sometimes forces the woman to work then spends her money on his pleasures. Additionally, victims of financial abuse experience long lasting emotional damage. Kharboush et al. (2010:4) found that husbands use to insult and belittle their wives in order to make them feel bad about themselves. Sometimes, emotional abuse is in the form of being ignored or being treated indifferently by one’s husband and the constant threat of divorce. At other times, it is isolation from other family members or not being allowed to go out. In Egypt, women who experience emotional abuse often experience it with other forms of
Data from 2005 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) found that physical violence is the most common form of marital violence in Egypt. Among the respondents, more than seven in ten women (72.1%) of the 5612 ever-married women …show more content…
Therefore the most researched form of domestic violence. According to Kharboush et al. (2010:3), physical abuse in the country is commonly expressed in the forms of slapping and beating, kicking and dragging on the floor, strangling and burning and pushing and grasping of hair. As well as these, some women were attacked with weapons such as knives or guns. The consequence is the resulting injury the victim endures. Besides physical abuse, sexual abuse is another form of violence perpetrated against Egyptian women. According to Kharboush et al. (2010:4), the expression of sexual abuse manifest as marital rape, in which husbands force their wives into sex against their will. Another form of expression is the husbanding demanding of sex even when the wife is …show more content…
Due to lack of employment opportunity for most married women in Egypt, they become financially dependent on their spouse. As a result of this dependency, women are subjected to various forms of economic abuse. According to Kharboush et al. (2010:4) and Mamdouh et al., (2012:1121), husbands force their wives to beg for money while, some husbands refuse to spend money on their wives, and are forced by their husbands to borrow money from parents and relatives. Women who work are not immune to economic abuses from their husband. Women who work may be required by their husband to give him all her earnings. The husband sometimes forces the woman to work then spends her money on his pleasures. Additionally, victims of financial abuse experience long lasting emotional damage. Kharboush et al. (2010:4) found that husbands use to insult and belittle their wives in order to make them feel bad about themselves. Sometimes, emotional abuse is in the form of being ignored or being treated indifferently by one’s husband and the constant threat of divorce. At other times, it is isolation from other family members or not being allowed to go out. In Egypt, women who experience emotional abuse often experience it with other forms of