Violence against Women: An Empirical Test of Resource and Radical Feminism Theories

The violence against women consider as a global phenomenon. Many researches show that there are differences in the incidence of violence against women due to unique cultural factors. Therefore، on the basis of differences in culture or geographic area، territory، national or ethnic origin، religion، there are lots of attitudes towards violence against women. Present Study of the various types of violence against women، violence against women within the family and in the field examines how much husbands violent. In this study explain the social factors of Violence by husbands against their wives in the city of Sanandaj. The method of research is survey The population of the study consisted of all women 15-45 years old، is married and resides in the city of Sanandaj. A total of 400 of these women were chosen through multi-step cluster random sampling. Validity study was the construct validity and content validity. It is also Cronbach''s alpha reliability for the scale has been used in this research. While only 6. 8 percent of the survey sample said they have not experienced any violence from their husbands، 60. 4% of women were under their husband violence and 32. 4% of the respondents have experienced medium and large violence from their husbands. Based on the analysis of research data، women''s adherence to gender roles is the most explanation husbands'' violence against women. The women who have accepted roles and gender stereotypes and male domination than women who do not accept these stereotypes، and show resistance against these stereotypes، have suffered less violence from their husband.