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INTRODUCTION "If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere." ― Aysha Taryam (Editor-in-Chief, The Gulf Today, Oct 18, 2015) Any research in social sciences entails with it some obvious constraints: the researcher cannot perhaps thoroughly disengage from the societal landscape of which s(he) is a part, around which the research framework is built, from which the relevant data will be collected, assimilated and worked upon. The ideal objectivity of the researcher gets affected when the scenario becomes bleak, dismal and gloomy. More so, if the field of vision includes women and working women as such in much hyped and publicly glorified shining India. Narrowing the channel down the line, as in the case of this research study, one enters upon an even murkier area---- unorganized sector and domestic violence committed against the married women belonging to this sector. Immediately the emerging picture becomes a frightening one that calls loudly for attention and redressal. Traditionally, women have been conditioned to recognize themselves under the "ownership" of men. As admonishing a recalcitrant child is a natural male prerogative, he has also the right to correct his wife. In fact from the Vedic time, the duty of the Indian wife was to wait on her husband, running all little errands for him, pressing his feet. She should wake up before him from sleep in the morning and go to sleep after him in the night: "She should do nothing independently Even in her house In Childhood subject to her father, In youth to her husband, And when her husband is dead to her sons,