Violation of women's rights as a wife: Women and encountering the issue of rights violations

The reflection in the sharia cases of women's rights as a wife is an example of women's rights, which is less well-known in society. There seems to be a kind of inconsistency in the three sources of sharia, custom and law in relation to this issue. The article, by acknowledging the complexity and multi-dimensions of the reasons for this contradiction, aims to examine the role of women in this regard from the perspective of the Cognitive Balance Theory. To this end, 30 women living in Tehran province who had a marital life experience were interviewed in the light of how to encounter the violation of their rights. Data analysis using the thematic analysis led to the extraction of five key themes included self-silence, learned helplessness, meta-religious femininity, circuit family, and ethical behavior in women that prevented them from claiming. Accordingly, by perceiving their individual abilities and the socio-cultural conditions of their society, the women prevented from claiming their well-known rights by adopting a realistic approach, and they cooperate in violating the women's rights a nd stabilizing the status quo.