{"id":1238,"date":"2004-12-02T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T20:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/02\/legal-wife-beating-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2004-12-02T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T20:07:56","slug":"legal-wife-beating-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Legal Wife-Beating In Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re in a mood to be disgusted and angered, go read this Human Rights Watch report, “Women’s Unequal Access to Divorce in Egypt.”<\/a> Or, if you’re in more of a hurry, read this Guardian <\/i>article on the report<\/a>. From the Guardian<\/i>:<\/p>\n

A survey conducted for the Egyptian government a few years ago found that one woman in three had been beaten at some time by her husband. Of those women, 45% had been beaten at least once in the past year and 17% had been beaten three or more times during the same period.<\/p>\n

Shocking as this may seem, most Egyptian women regard beating as a normal and more or less acceptable part of life. Almost 86% of the women surveyed thought husbands were justified in hitting their wives sometimes, and a large majority said a refusal to have sex was sufficient grounds for beating.<\/p>\n

The survey also showed the percentage of women aged 20-29 who thought beating was justified for a range of other domestic “offences”:<\/p>\n