WOMEN, HEALTHCARE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A PARADOXICAL FATHOM?

Keywords: Women, Health, Domestic Violence, Qualitative Methods, India
Abstract Type: Paper Abstract

Abstract

This article directs to fathom the health stand on a comprehensive concept and menstrual health and hygiene in a micro-level context of female household helpers in Guwahati, an urban metropolitan area in Assam, India. The study area pertains to the ethnic diversity of the tribal women in the urban city of Guwahati. An endeavor has been taken to delineate menstrual hygiene practices, access to healthcare, strategies to deal with health issues, reproductive justice, and contraceptive choices. Attempts have been made to understand the tampered gap of how there are circumscribed linkages between parameters like domestic violence, domestic equality, and patriarchy at a micro-level with that the health issues of women. On an inclusive note, it lines up to show the status of health of the women working as domestic house helpers. Condemnatorily, it also weaves showing how masculinity and patriarchy manifest their impact on it. There is the acumen for refinement in pre-determined domains. With the help of forty sample sizes based on random sampling, a scrutinization has been made on methodologies like semi-structured interviews and storyboarding. There is a high positive correlation that is seen to exist between the chosen parameters and the health of women. The life stories of women of such marginalized women portray the prevailing masculinity and lack of health awareness in the area.