Abuse and Battered Women

Abuse and Battered Women

Women Abuse

Introduction

The concept of women perception as objects is a debatable issue. Gender abuse relates hand in hand with the aspect of making the women appear inferior. Around the globe, one in at least every three women is abused by being beaten, coerced into sex or any other abuse normally by someone she knows in most cases her husband. Violence against women inflicts a woman's right to life, equality, liberty and dignity. There is a perception that women are weaker in the community. They are also less fortunate than male who are considered muscular thus take advantage of the disadvantaged woman. Gender based violence reinforce and reflect the inequalities that exist between men and women. Women are used as tools in various ways in the world. This in summation encompasses violence against women. Women abuse is a societal issue that needs immediate eradication.

Women as Tools

Violence to women

The WHO considers gender-based violence as; acts that result in, physical, psychological, sexual and economic harm to a woman. This includes all the acts that result to suffering to the woman or girls such as using threats, coercion and deprivation of liberty, whether privately or publicly. Rape, sexual violence, conflicts, forced marriages and traditional practices such as female genital mutilation are all forms of gender-based violence that women experience. Forced pregnancy, women trafficking, forced prostitution, forced abortion, forced sterilization and coercive, use of contraceptives are forms of gender-based violence that a majority of the women experience(Russo and Pirlott).

Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation, a form of gender violence and abuse the woman, is still in practice, in some parts of the globe today. More than 125 million women have undergone FGM worldwide especially in Africa and Middle East countries. FGM entails procedures that intentionally cause alteration or injury to the female genital parts for non-beneficial reasons. It involves brutal removal of the total or partial parts of the external female genitalia and injury to the female organs. It is a non-beneficial procedure to the woman with no benefit attached to it. Some of the communities still practice female genital mutilation in an attempt to reduce infidelity issues to the woman. There is no medical relationship between FGM and infidelity issues. It is recognized globally as a major violation of human rights to the woman.

Sexual Assault/Violence

Women are the major victims of sexual assault especially those women who depend on the male authorities at the workplace are victims of sexual coercion. Rape is the most committed assault of sexual harassment occurring especially in times of war. It has been used systematically as an instrumental tool for torture and ethnic domination between communities. Most of women victims of forced into sex coerced and lured into sexual acts, which is against their pleasure and without their willingness or consent especially, husbands to their wives. Sexual assault is a violation as well as a crime of the woman's right and anyone can be an assault's victim, but women in the community are the most vulnerable. Woman and girls are assaulted by close associates such as family members and close friends. The sex assault movement started to help rape and sex assault victims. It provides support and services to the affected helping affected women on their journey to become survivors as well as creating awareness and campaigning against sexual violence(de Lange, Mitchell, and Bhana).

Domestic Violence

Most of violence to a woman takes place at home setting. Domestic violence results from the male gender directing anger and violence against their women partners. Gender difference and inequalities between men and women is the main reason for occurrence of domestic violence. Differences are rooted in the way boys, and girls are sociable in the community. However, the biological differences between men and woman have shown no relationship with gender and violence. Pregnant women are particularly very vulnerable to domestic violence (Alhabib, Nur, and Jones). During pregnancy, husbands become very violent to their wives. They go to the extent of kicking their wife's belly. This leads to complications during pregnancy. The woman runs twice the risk of getting a miscarriage and four times the risk of getting of a low birth weight baby.

The society view of muscularity is very detrimental to gender and violence in the community. Cross-cultural studies conducted on wife abuse, violence have found that almost a fifth of small-scale society and peasants