Figure 1 shows the acceptance of wife’s beating by women and men. There are three notable points. First, women have a higher acceptance rate of wife’s beating than men in all categories. Second, the highest form of justification for wife beating is when a women neglect children but is about twice justifiable for women (32.2%) than men (15.9%). Third, the least acceptance of wife beating is when she burns the food and women acceptance is three times higher (16%) than men (5.3%).
Figure 2 shows the acceptance of wife-beating by country. This result shows that women in the sample usually accept wife beating as justified compared to men who perpetrate this violence. We also noted that the acceptance of wife beating differs by country. For the women sample, Mali, Chad, Congo Democratic Republic, and Guinea had the highest rate of acceptance (80.6%, 78.4%, 77.1% and 70.3%respectively). Only women in South Africa (4.9%) had an acceptance rate below 10%. For the men sample, Congo Democratic Republic (54.7%) had an acceptance rate above 50%. Unlike the women sample, three countries in the men sample had acceptance rates below 10% (South Africa, Comoros, and Malawi).
Fig. 2
Justification of wife beating between women and men by country
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