Author(s): C Naik and BK Mishra

Abstract:
Domestic violence is a common problem now-a-days. It is found that, reports of family violence has increased around the world in this pandemic COVID -19. Due to pandemic many people lost their jobs, faced a lot of financial problems for which women were generally the victims of men's abusive behaviour. The WHO had put out the data that, world-wide about one in three women or 736 million women across ages are subjected to violence in pandemic. In this paper we have studied the form of different domestic violence faced by women (both house wife and working women) of Sundargarh Town of Odisha state, which is situated in the eastern India.