Belief in Domestic Violence
Where women believe it is right to be beaten by their husbands and how this might be influenced by work.
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Test
Average of 2000-2009
Average of 2010-2009
There are five main reasons why women believe being beaten by their husbands is justified.
Select two countries to compare their percentages and to see how they changed from the first to the second decade of this millennium.
If the country you are looking for is not in the list, no data is available.
In the previous section, we learned more about domestic violence and how differently women feel about that topic. To prove our initial assumption, that there's a correlation between domestic violence and employment, we'll first have to take a deeper look at the labor force participation in those countries. As you might think, this is quite difficult as there are well over 100 countries in the world. We therefore created sub-groups that include several countries.
After having taken a detailed look into the labor force participation all over the world, we now want to
research, whether a correlation exists
between a country's labor force participation and how their female inhabitants think about being beaten.
When looking at the scatterplot above, we unfortunately cannot recognize a specific pattern to confirm our thesis. There are still some very interesting learnings and discoveries that we've made, namely:
Our dataset mostly contains data of african countries. This can also be observed in the world map. When looking at the scatterplot, we quickly notice, that the orange data-points (which represent african countries) are all over the place. In the years 2000-2009, we have Madagascar, which is a very interesting example. Madagascar has the highest female labor force participation of all african countries and at the same time one of the lowest WHB-Values. Polar opposite to Madagascar is Somalia. 76% of female somalians that took part in the study believe, that them getting beaten by their husband is justified. This is double as many as Madagascar. At the same time, Somalia has the lowest female labor force participation of whole Africa. We now fast-forward in time and find ourselves in the years 2010-2019. We discover, that the group of orange data-points have shifted to the left, indicating, that less african females believe, that it is justified when their husband beats them. Therefore, progress is definetly recognizable.
Just as Africa, the blue asian data-points are all over the place. This makes sense, as many cultures but also religions are at home in Asia. Also in Asia, we can find many interesting countries. Afghanistan for example pops straight into the viewers eye with a WHB-Value of 85 and one of the lowest female labor force participation in Asia. This might indicate, that there is in fact a correlation between LFP and WHB. This is however quickly disproven when having a look at Jordan in the bottom left. Jordan has both one of the lowest female labor force participation in Asia and still, "only" 18% of females think that it is justified to get beaten by their husband. Of course 18% is still a lot, but nevertheless much less than Afghanistan. Countries like Qatar, Mongolia, Armenia and the Philippines are also interesting observations, as they are surrounded by much more european and american countries rather than asian countries. All of the just mentioned countries have a female labor force participation between 50-60% while also having a rather low WHB-Value, which is good.
One thing we underestimated is, that work ≠ work. We're both lucky enough to have worked in jobs, which we enjoyed and which also taught us a lot. Work was also some kind of education to us. It however cannot be assumed that this is the case for all people. In many cases, work can be boring, repetitive and overall not enjoyable. This can in consequence be degrading and not helpful for ones self-esteem and self-appreciation at all.