Effect of domestic violence on women’s participation in agricultural activities in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the effect of domestic violence on women’s participation in agricultural activities in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study described the socio-economic characteristics of respondents; identified the forms of domestic violence in the study area, examined the determinants of domestic violence and investigated the effect of domestic violence women’s participation in agricultural activities in the study area. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select respondents for the study to select 90 respondents for the study. Descriptive statistics, logistic and probit regression models were used for data analysis. Result from the socio-economic characteristics of the women revealed that 62.2% of the women were married with average age of 36.8% and 62.2% of the women had secondary education and above while majority (45.6%) of them engaged in farming as their primary occupation. Results on forms and frequency of domestic violence showed that 63.3, 42.2, 36.7 and 23.3% of the women indicated emotional, physical, financial and sexual issues as the most prevalent forms of domestic violence in the study area. Logistic regression result indicated that age, level of education, occupation, substance abuse, economic dependence on partners, and financial stress are statistically significant factors determining of domestic violence in the study area while result from the Probit regression showed that level of education, household income, experience of physical violence and sexual violence significantly influence women’s participation in agricultural activities. It is therefore suggested that targeted economic empowerment, social protection, and gender-based violence interventions to enhance women’s agricultural participation and welfare.