Covid pandemic and domestic violence
- Bihar Journal of Public Administration
- 18(1A), Jan-Jun, 2021: p.95-102
It is a predominant assumption that the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and home quarantine conditions have fueled the gender based domestic violence across the globe. Government’s directions to stay in home (home quarantine) and to obey the government rules caused hostile attitude among the intimate partners within the family. The data reveals that spending more time together within family increases the rate of gender based domestic violence. In this process women become vulnerable. Thus, the present paper intends to test this hypothesis. To achieve this objective, the paper bases mainly on secondary sources of data collection viz. government reports, UN reports, IMF’s report, UNICEF’s report, newspapers and other sources of information such as published research work including articles, chapters and books. – Reproduced