Globally, 35 percent of women have reported experiencing sexual and/or physical violence, and in most cases by their partners (WHO, 2013). The south-east Asian region has the highest prevalence of intimate partner violence, and this region includes India as classified by the WHO (2013). In India, the number of women who experienced sexual violence by their husbands in 2005 has been estimated to be 40 times the number of women who experienced such violence from non-intimate perpetrators, though only about 1–2 percent of the acts of physical or sexual violence by the husband were reported to the police (Gupta, 2014). This chapter contributes to the existing literature on intimate partner violence by analysing the effect of married women's employment status on spousal violence in the Indian context. 1 The chapter examines this relationship within and across different socio-religious and economic groups. The study suggests that such intersectional analyses can further our understanding of the potential reasons as to why women's employment lowers or further aggravates the risks of intimate partner violence.