Domestic Violence against working women is a persistent public health and human rights problem. In India, 44 per cent of women of reproductive age group have ever experienced physical domestic violence. Women in rural areas were more likely to have faced domestic violence than women in urban area. Globally, the negative impact of domestic violence on health of women has been recognized and acknowledged. Domestic violence increases day
by day globally. Domestic violence mostly for the working women increases the risk of their life and also to their ever existence of their well being. Various studies have identified factors coupled with the likelihood of domestic violence among working women. Underlying factors of domestic violence are the failure to perform duties and responsibilities, economic stress, hierarchical gender relations, lower household income, illiteracy, belonging to lower caste,
age at marriage, number of living children, women employment. A few studies have also explored the relationship between domestic violence and socio demographic living of working women in India. However, the social determinants of domestic violence in urban community in India remain limited. Hence, the objective of this study was to know the prevalence of violence and to understand the socio-demographic factors related to it in Coimbatore City of Tamil Nadu.