“Whose help can I ask? If I talk to another woman in the village, she can’t help. She faces the same thing at her home. I haven’t told anyone that he abuses me, but everyone sees it—people in my family, and villagers also. They ask me, ‘Why are you fighting? Why is he hitting you?’ Then they all say it is the fault of the wife…” These words of a village woman from a survey in Bihar highlight the extreme vulnerability of women to violence in their marital homes. It is widely accepted that this arises from gender disparities and deeply entrenched patriarchal attitudes that deny women their voice and agency.

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