| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 財政學系 === 103 === Labor force participation of married women has been increasing sharply in Taiwan. The number of domestic violence cases, however, remains high, and the vast majority is marital violence. Most research in Taiwan studying marital violence focused on female characteristics, including age, income and education level, family history and social factors. Little has been done to analyze the effect of married women’s relative financial independence on marital violence. This study intends to examine the connection between financial ability of married women and domestic conflicts.
Based on the 13th-year project, RR2011, of the Panel Study of Family Dynamics dataset, the study conducts an empirical analysis with Logistic Regression Model. The findings show that women with stable monthly income are more likely to be verbally or physically abused than women without stable monthly income when having conflicts with their spouses The odds ratio is 1.51. In addition, the study finds that, compared with women in traditional families that men are the primary income providers, women who are the major source of family income are prone to experience verbal or physical abuse when they have conflicts with their husbands. The odds ratio is 2.16, suggesting that when women are more financially independent,the family stability would become lower. Therefore, it is recommended that the government provides supporting measures to mitigate family instability caused by higher female labor force participation rate when encouraging married women to join the labor market, such as improving the social education on domestic roles or conveying to the public through the media that marital violence is a wrong social conduct .
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