Percentage of Women Who Think it is Ok for their Husbands to Hit Them From Around the World

Global Health Magazine posted this screenshot today.

The information used in this graphic comes from data assembled on the UNICEF site Child Info: Monitoring the Situation of Women and Children and collected between 2001 and 2007. The percentages above represent women aged 15–49 who responded that a husband or partner is justified in hitting or beating his wife under certain circumstances. See a chart with more country info and sources here. There appears to be no data on the U.S.

I want to stress one important point. Before we start blaming these women for their ignorance, we need to understand that their differing views are due to differences in culture. They were not raised with same values and convictions of those in the western world, and thus should not necessarily be looked down upon because of what they think. It is a matter of cultural relativism. That is not to say that I condone domestic violence. Rather, what I am saying is lets not blame these women for thinking the way they do.

(HT: Huffington Post)