Living experience of female-headed households from post-earthquake violence (A case study of female-headed households living in earthquake-stricken areas of Kermanshah province

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

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¹ Department of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University.(Instructor of the Social Sciences, Department of Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran)

² Department of Social Work, AllamehTabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran

³ Department of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.30495/jzvj.2022.27719.3551

Abstract

Introduction: Female-headed households are vulnerable and neglected social groups in natural disasters who always subjected to violence due to cultural and social issues. The aim of this study was to investigate the lived experience of female-headed households from post-earthquake violence in Kermanshah province.
Methods: The study population was all women affected by the earthquake and 15 of them were purposefully interview in person. The sample size was continue using theoretical sampling until theoretical saturation. Data collected by interpretive phenomenological strategy and analyzed by Dickelman.et al (1989).
Results: 474 open source code, 55 sub-themes and 4 main themes extracted. Findings of violence against women founded to include "unfair access to resources, stigma, lack of security, and the destruction of communities." The results of this study show that the elimination of violence against these women depends on the removal of cultural barriers before the events and attention to their decision-making power in the heart of the family and society.

Keywords

• lived experience
• violence
• : female-headed households: Kermanshah earthquake

20.1001.1.20088566.1401.13.50.7.3

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