Abstract
This chapter aims to provide an explanation for the observed increase in VAWG during COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh with a focus on child marriage and domestic violence—two of the widespread forms of gender-based violence in the country. The study has been conducted based on data derived from secondary sources, focusing on both qualitative as well as quantitative studies. By applying the social ecological framework, the study identifies a number of factors represented at individual, familial, community, and societal levels and how these factors interact with each other and result in an increased prevalence of VAWG in a pandemic context. Increased poverty at family level, prolonged school closures, girls pursuing positive attitude towards child marriage, the urge to save family honor, inadequate state laws and community breakdown have been identified as the main factors behind the increased risk of child marriage, especially in urban slums and rural areas. Whereas widespread poverty and unemployment, movement restrictions, overwhelmed health care system, breakdown in legal system and police, and shifting gender roles and relationship dynamics are all amplifying the stress and tensions at personal, household and community levels leading up to increased prevalence of domestic violence. Finally, the chapter recommends a few pathways to avert the alarming surges in child marriage and domestic violence across the country with regard to mitigating their detrimental effects on the lives of women and girls.
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Mahtab, N., Fariha, T.N. (2022). Pandemic Within a Pandemic: Gendered Impact of COVID-19 in Bangladesh with a Focus on Child Marriage and Domestic Violence. In: Roy, S., Nandy, D. (eds) Understanding Post-COVID-19 Social and Cultural Realities. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0809-5_12
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