more education = more abuse?

I just caught this link over at Racialicious, and followed it over to The Louisana Weekly, where Charreah Jackson has an article titled “Education equals higher chance of abuse for black women.” In the article, Jackson cites this quite startling statistic, that black women with college degrees are “145 times more likely to suffer sexual, domestic or other abuse than those who did not finish high school, according to a recent study.” It continues:

One reason offered for the major increase of the likelihood of college-educated Black women being abused sexually, among others, is the backlash theory. It states that as women become more successful outside of the home, men become abusive due to resentment of their move outside of the traditional roles of women.

The article is quite interesting, and also talks a bit more about how the statistics were collected, as well as also discussing how part of the problem is linked to ways in which abuse is not discussable in many black households. Check it out!