Physical violence including wife battering, and non-spousal violence. Psychological violence constitutes some of the other ways men use coercion over women and children. Some examples include preventing women having access to money or limiting women s access to education and employment. The perpetrator may threaten to kill the woman if she leaves, isolate her from contact with family or friends. He may humiliate the woman in front of her children or in public.
Sexual violence includes sexual abuse of female children in the household and marital rape.
The low social and economic status of women can be both a cause and a consequence of violence against women. That of a girl only deserves a sheep, if at all. As a result of their weak economic status coupled with the financial dependence on their partners, they suffer violence at all levels and in all spheres. Some men violently oppose women s economic independence, preferring to be in command of all their economic resources. Persistent battering may lead to disfiguring, maiming or even homicide.