3. PREFACE
Whether it be Highlands woman voting in the
upcoming national election or woman starting
micro-businesses in certain parts of PNG, the
nationwide trend toward greater equality is clear.
Yet the denial of woman’s basic human rights is
persisted and widespread.
4. INTRODUCTION
The gender issue in this presentation is on wife
bashing/beating*. Wife bashing or beating is
another form of domestic or gender based
violence where the husband beats up his wife.
Wife bashing is the act of beating up of the wife
by the husband* .
Mental harm or suffering to women depriving
them of their liberty whether occurring to women
in private or public life.
Wife bashing is a behavior by the close partner
(husband) when the male partner feels the need
to dominate and control the female partner.
5. Statistics have found that around 68% or more
than 2.3 million women have experienced
violence. The number of women who experience
gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea is
extremely high. (PNG domestic Violence statistics
, 2013)
Main known causes of wife bashing are gender
inequity and discrimination, alcohol and drug
abuse*.
This in turn leads to quarrels, arguments, disunity
and to domestic violence within and among
families creating a tension in the village,
community, the society and the country as a
whole.
This research was carried out in the Wagol
6. LITERATURE REVIEW
Countless successive awareness, policy
amendments, and researches about wife bashing
has been conducted but this issue still seems to
be an unanswered problem that persists and
affects the domestic affairs of families in Papua
New Guinea.
Efforts made to address family and sexual
violence within government*Social inclusion
policy
Consequences of family and sexual violence
(United Nations).
7. CONT.
*A society’s view on wife bashing is always seen
as a private affair
One of the main factor that acts as a hindrance in
eliminating wife basing is how we perceive this act
of violence in our society.
‘What makes this issue so real to us?’*
Women are still living in fear and consuming all
their suffering in silence.
8. METHODOLOGY
*The research methodology mainly requires us to
gather information and relevant data on Wife
bashing in Wagol community. Throughout our
research we have distributed a couple of
questions to the couples in the community.
We have used both Group research methods
which is the empirical-analytical group Research
method and the Interpretative group of methods to
come up with our questions
9. CONT.
The research method is qualitative research
because the outcome of the questionnaire is after
all not measureable and neither is it quantifiable*.
Our data collection is based on both interviews
and responds of the questionnaire distribution
questionnaires to some of the couples in the
community.
This are some of the questions that have been
included in the semi-structured questionnaire
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10. FEATURES OF THE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
The aim is to find out how many women are
beaten up by their husband.
From looking at the data, we can predict what is
the main cause of wife bashing
Data is taken in the form of questions answered by
viewpoint of other people.
It takes time for the data to be obtain especially for
the people filling the questionnaire. It also made it
hard for people to generalize the idea of wife
bashing.
Difficulties face about the data collection*
.
11. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
*Firstly, the interviewed community of Wagol
settlement have all identified and made mention of
them being aware that violence is an ongoing
thing and something that is somewhat becoming a
norm. One significant factor is in who provokes
the violence to occur. The graph below shows the
gender identified by the community to be
responsible in starting arguments.
13. *The table below demonstrates possible reasons why couples get into
arguments which were identified by the people.
Reasons for arguing Male Female
Snobby 0 1
Being suspicious 3 7
Alcohol related 1 1
Seeing opposite sex 1 1
Deceit 1 0
Facebook 0 1
Gossip 0 1
Gamble 1 1
Too much complaining 0 2
Coming home late 0 2
14. • As identified in the above table, the result of the
argument in great extent leads directly to abuse.
• Women are most likely the victims to receive more
injuries. Men use brute force overpowering women
using their physical strength.
• In other instances, men tend to use other objects to
hurt women. Other object identified by the community
includes; softball bats, stones, using knife as
intimidation or to graze the women’s skin, even tools
such as hammer and other hard objects are used to
physically cause injury to the women.
15. Conclusion
• Hitting your wife with a baseball bat, burning her with fire,
threatening her with intimidation of killing her is not only wrong,
it’s incomprehensible. It is obvious that a man’s physical
strength surpasses that of a woman but that does not mean you
use that to your advantage and abuse women. By doing this,
you don’t prove any merits of muscularity but only cowardice
and disrespect for your wives and women.
• In our Constitution and laws, it states that women have equal
rights as men and are by law subjected to the protection of it.
Many husbands are still lacking in this knowledge and are still
mistreating their wives as they see fit.*
16. • For one of our recommendations, we will be discussing a major
plan discussed in our write up to help eradicate GBV in
particular wife bashing in communities. The plan itself is a safe
house called the Community Life Shelter. It will be in operation
in Madang but receiving numerous institutions and
stakeholders’ support from around PNG.*
Recommendations
17. • Identify the business case for investing in GBV-While the
full costs associated with current prevention and response
initiatives are not known, what is clear from this study is that the
potential economic impact of GBV far outweighs the funding
either currently provided, or potentially required, to address the
issue.
• Build on existing cost estimates, including cost to
implement GBV legislation-The study highlights the gaps in
data and information required to fully cost the impact of GBV in
PNG. International bodies such as the UN lead the way in
encouraging nations to make the collection of data on GBV a
priority. A key input to understanding the economic impact of
GBV is to fully estimate the resources required to implement
legislation related to GBV, specifically the Domestic Violence
and Sexual Offences Acts
18. • Strengthen data collection and record keeping-
Government departments and civil society should be
encouraged to strengthen their data collection and
record keeping practices in order to ensure that data
is being captured at the appropriate level and is able
to serve as an input for further costing or prevalence
studies, and also to assess whether the current
budgets are sufficient for implementing GBV
activities-
19. Real men and woman do not
“switch-off,” when addressing GBV
Aime, Uneune, Kagai, Gabi,
Otto. 2017
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Editor's Notes
*using his fist or weapons like knife, sticks, iron rods or stones or anything hard object that can cause physical damage to the wife which results in physical
*Most cases of domestic violence are when the husband is drunk and beats his wife. Most men take advantage of women’s weakness and bash them because they know that the women are incapable of defending themselves.
Most husbands regard their wives as objects and blame their wives for every little thing they find fault in. For instance, bearing a female child when they want a male, work pressure, family obligations, forgetting to clean the house or wash the dishes, children crying, food not cooked to his liking, does not like the way she is dressing, no respect, not enough food in the house and talking to a male stranger and so forth.
*have been slow because of policy makers’ reluctance to acknowledge domestic and other forms of gender-based violence as public matters, and to understand the dynamics and
1st*this is somewhat our sentiments on the gender gap
2nd* refers to the consequences we see everyday such as death, divorce, instability in family
Anxiety and fear in woman, children seeking refuge from relatives and traumatized woman
*In this research, particular on Wife bashing in Wagol Community, we are to create a plan on how to reduce, minimize and wife ways to address the issue of Wife bashing in the community. It is to better the family life of both newlywed couples and the old waded couples. We have chosen the location because one of our members is well versed with the people there.
*On May 15 we went down to Wagol and conducted an interview with some of the couples while others we distributed the questionnaire to them.
*Firstly, there was the difficulty of illiterate people filling the paper. Also it was time consuming for them to answer the questionnaires given to them compared to personal interview carried out and done by ourselves.
*It also took time for the council to finalize give us the exact population status for the Wagol community
*Our findings come directly from the point of view of other community members. The interviewed persons were a total number of 24. Based upon our findings that we have gathered; we were surprised with the results. Some responses were astounding, some were obvious. And there are some that were overwhelming and cruel.
*Another issue lies in what the argument is about. because The whole contention of GBV lays parallel to whatever the reason is for getting into an argument with the opposite gender in the 1st place.
2nd * The data clearly identifies women as having a large number of being the ones responsible for provoking arguments related to the identified reasons.
In our opinion, awareness to that issue is not being effective enough. We would rather harsher penalties are served for husbands who behave like animals towards their wife. That they and future husbands would know the consequences of considering such offences as this and rethink how they would treat their wives now and in the future so as to prevent this sort of injustice and also advocate that all women have equal rights as men and deserve to be treated accordingly as normal human beings
*It is somewhat similar to other safe house programs such as the ‘meri safe house’ that was created by the mission in 2008 in Lae, but some of its initiatives such as broad casting case issues is something that makes this shelter house unique.
