Table 2. Bivariate associations of contextual indicators and women’s and men’s acceptance of domestic violence in at least one situation (N = 49).

	Women	Men	Gender Difference
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FACTORS
Gini Inequality Index	(-0.26)	-0.35*	(0.01)
Multi-dimensional Deprivation Index	0.53***	0.34**	0.44**
Female literacy rates	-0.59***	-0.31*	-0.59***
Female primary education	(-0.14)	(-0.15)	(0.02)
Female secondary education	-0.42*	(-0.21)	-0.47**
Female tertiary education	-0.42**	-0.30*	-0.39**
Female labour force participation	(-0.05)	[-0.16]	(0.16)
Women working for cash	(-0.09)	(-0.08)	(-0.09)
Women’s economic rights	-0.49**	-0.47**	-0.31*
Early Marriage (<18)	0.33*	[0.25]	0.30*
POLITICAL FACTORS
Women in national parliament	(0.24)	(0.22)	(0.20)
Women’s political rights	(0.18)	(0.21)	(0.13)
Unified democracy mean score	-0.42**	-0.41**	(-0.24)
Conflict mean (average 5 year score)	0.46**	0.40**	0.32*
LEGISLATION
Existence of explicit DV law	-0.14	-0.25	(0.10)
Overall quality of DV law	0.25	0.21	(0.25)
CONTROLS
GDP PPP per capita	-0.36**	-0.11	-0.46***

NOTE: The outcome variable for women and men was computed as the percentage of responses marked as ‘Yes’ to any one of the given statements. The difference between the proportion of women and proportion of men justifying DV in at least one circumstance is the outcome variable for the gender difference. () indicates a non-significant Spearman’s Rho test statistic at the 0.5 level.

*p < .05;

** < .01;

***p < .001