So basically, this attitude is not based on a religious background. It is also an extremely base and uncivilized attitude. Nevertheless, there are doctors, lawyers, college professors and many others who practice violence against women without a qualm. In order to be able to analyze this situation, we need to take a close look at the general attitude towards women in Egyptian society. There is certainly a very strong feeling of the superiority of the male population over the female one in this country.
Men grow up feeling that women are somehow lesser beings.
That their job in life is to provide the physical comfort to these men. In an average Egyptian family, the man has always assumed the role of the master and given the woman the lesser role of servitude. So naturally, a man is given more power against women in his family. Moreover, there is the honor issue, where any tampering with a girl s reputation is considered a matter of life and death. The end result, therefore, is the feeling of legitimacy towards using violence against women.