Iranian Violence Against Women

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Today, violence against women is one of the common problems in the domestic and international communities. This issue when it becomes important that we find this phenomenon with its various dimensions can be carriers of the consequences, which in turn, causes the instability and insecurity of social and family foundations. The method used in this study is descriptive-analytical and data collection is library method, that author by analyzing the collected material deals with the reasoning and conclusions. In this study to investigate violence against women in Iranian law has been manifested the factors involved. According to the study, factors such as culture, economy and society are effective in the intensity and violence against women, that …show more content…

In terms of age, women were at different ages and their ages were more varied, from 20 to 50 years. Although, most of them were in the age group of 30 to 40 years. (43.4%). Age of married women was different and comprised of early marriages (under 14 years) to marry between the ages of 30 to 40 years. The majority of them were married aged 18 -25 years of age (47%), and due to the age of marriage and age at the time of the interview, also different length of the marriage in the case of some women, less than one years and the number was more than 20 years. The majority were married in length from 10 to 20 years. Women's educational level, there was a large dispersion were illiterate to university educated with a bachelor's degree. Nearly half of women (51%) were educated to high school level and half another (49%) had a level of high school and higher and license. The surprisingly in this women was very high percentage of employment. 44% of women at the time of the interview were employed, and mainly, worked as a teacher and employee. Working women, who have income from their work, but other women without employment had earnings from other sources. In addition, half of the women had their own income, but its revenues were classified as medium and low. Individual characteristics of husbands were also fits women. The majority of men were married in the age class 20 to 25 years (47%). However, in a few cases, there was a significant age difference between the couple, but as usual, the difference in age between 5 to 10 years. Any of women was not older than her husband. The level of education of men, like women, was dispersed from illiterate to higher education. But the highest level of education for men was higher than women. In the sample studied, there were men with a master's degree (engineering

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