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Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural–urban continuum in Ethiopia

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Title Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural–urban continuum in Ethiopia
 
Creator Amare, Mulubrhan
Arndt, Channing
Guo, Zhe
Seymour, Greg
 
Subject gender
women
gender-based violence
domestic violence
rural areas
urban areas
urbanization
 
Description Little is known about the effects of urbanization on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV). The scarcity of empirical studies on this relationship can be partly attributed to the lack of an objective measure of urbanization levels. In this study, we investigate the effects of urbanization on Ethiopian women’s attitudes toward IPV using four continuous measures of urbanization: nightlight intensity, distance to urban areas, total urban area within a 10-km radius, and an urbanization index. These measures are defined from satellite-based nighttime light intensity and multispectral sensor data. We find that despite a generally strong positive association between urbanization and progressive attitudes among women toward IPV, some stages of urbanization show a more significant association than others. The heterogeneities in the effect of all urbanization measures on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence further show that the effects of urbanization measures are sharply heterogeneous across wealth indicator terciles. While we find that urbanization measures are associated with an overall decrease in the justification of IPV, the effects are higher and stronger for women in the upper and middle wealth terciles compared to the lowest wealth tercile. Initially less-privileged women gain little from urbanization in the attitudes toward IPV, resulting in increased inequality in women’s empowerment in the short and medium term.
 
Date 2024-02-01
2023-11-21T16:49:53Z
2023-11-21T16:49:53Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Amare, Mulubrhan; Arndt, Channing; Guo, Zhe; and Seymour, Greg. 2024. Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural–urban continuum in Ethiopia. World Development 174(February 2024): 106451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106451
0305-750X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134583
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106451
 
Language en
 
Relation https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134224
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Source World Development