Linkage between women agency and violence in intimate relationship in Bangladesh and Nepal

The critical contributors to women as agency and exert considerable influence on the development of women's personality and on strengthening their position in the household and in society in general. Women agency is the factor, which introduces to reduction in the domestic violence. Intimate relationships are comparatively better to capture the youth emotional and behavioral stability. Violence may influence through different expressions like violent thoughts, behavior change, and emotional instability. This article presents findings from an analysis of the DHS data of both countries, documenting the consequences of the women agency on adolescents and young women livelihood. Adolescents and young women are reported the higher work participation in Hindu religion (50%) in Nepal prior to Muslim women (23%) in Bangladesh in the last 12 months preceding the survey. Adolescents and young women have better job opportunity in the urban areas as compared to rural areas or better reporting may be the one prominent reason. It seems that the women of the poorer families are more likely to work for their betterment. Therefore, it gives immense pleasure that the women agency in important factor to reduces the gender based violence. It shows that, the lower status of indicators of women agency have responsible for the higher prevalence of various types of violence.