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Gender based violence (GBV) is a worldwide scourge and spousal battering has been found to be a common form of GBV. The objective of this paper was to examine the attitudes of women towards spousal battering and to assess the association between women's attitudes and the likelihood of being abused. The paper utilizes secondary data from the 2007 Zambia Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS). Results show that the younger women were more likely to justify wife beating when compared to older women (P < 0.05). Women from urban areas (68%) with middle income background (71%) were more likely to agree that wife beating is justified compared to rural women (56%) and women with a higher income background (51%). Women who had attained secondary level of education were 1.3 times more likely to report that wife beating was justified compared to those from higher levels of education. Women whose husbands drunk alcohol were 1.2 times more likely to report that wife beating was justified compared to those women whose husbands never drunk alcohol. The results from the analysis suggests that age, marital duration, place of residence, wealth index, partner's wife and husband's educational level, number of children and husband's alcohol consumption contributed to justification of spousal battering. Gender based violence (GBV) is a worldwide scourge which literally happens everywhere, including in the Western world, where human rights are exercised more widely than in the non-Western countries. The World Health Organization (1) reports that "violence is the result of the complex interplay of individual, social, cultural and environmental factors". Social norms and the environment may condone or help perpetuate violence. Studies show that the acceptance rates of wife-beating range from 70% of men and 90% of women in rural Uganda (2), to 53% of women in Zimbabwe (3), 56% of women in India (4), 66.4% of women in Nigeria (5) and 60% of Palestinian men and 61% of Palestinian women living in Jordan (6). In a study of men and women in Uganda, younger age was associated with the acceptance of wife beating, and in all situations, women were more

Factors Associated with Women’s Attitude towards Spousal Abuse: The Case of Zambia