Sexual violence can be defined as “any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, or other act directed against a person’s sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting, including but not limited to home and work”. Sexual violence can include the following threat of rape attempted rape, rape, Sexual harassment and sexual contact with force[1].
Violence against women is a public health problem as well as a basic violation of women’s human rights[2]. The impact of violence is beyond physical injuries it also accounts disability, depression, physical and reproductive problem, and risky sexual behavior[3].
In the world 10 up to 50% of women suffered with sexual violence by their intimate partners[4]. in sub-Saharan Africa the experience of women with physical and/or sexual violence by their intimate partner ranges from 27–59%[5]. In Ethiopia 59% of women were exposed to sexual violence[4].
Generally, in the countries where the statuses of women are low, younger women are more likely to suffer from domestic violence. Ethiopia has one of the highest prevalence of both physical and sexual violence by their intimate partner[6]. Most study conducted on violence against women agreed that lower educational status, abuse of (alcohol, kchat, and smoke) and younger women are more likely increase experience of violence against women [7–9].
Gender based violence affected the significant segment of populations on girls and women across all group and classes[10]. At worldwide with in its informal nature of domestic worker still challenge to regulation and policy implementation lead to limited opportunities of access to social and legal protection[11].
Universally, all type of violence overlap in relationship and a significant public health problem worldwide but the level and pattern of violence greatly varies between setting, culture and segment of the population[12].
Even though there are many studies conducted on violence in the globe and also in our country Ethiopia in all segment of girls and/or women, there is lack of information about magnitude and associated factors of sexual violence against housemaids.
Therefore, this study amide to assess the magnitude of sexual violence and also tried to identify factors associated with sexual violence among housemaid. So, this research finding hope to alleviate scarce of information on housemaids sexual violence in Debre-Tabor town northwest Ethiopia.