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They argued that the brutality men unleashed on the largely weaker sex was the s ource of escalating cases of domestic violence, often leading to death.
"Men who batter their wives should be imprisoned or given community service," women in western Uganda districts Kabarole and Bundibugyo districts propose in a memorandum after a consultative seminar on the controversial bill.
"Many husbands are battering their wives and they are not punished," they charged, "This has increased cases of domestic violence."
The DRB, which has been shelved several times over lack of compromise between male and female legislators, remains contentious and there is fear among females that it will never be approved.
Among the many fears cited is sharing property owned by the man with a spouse up on marriage.
In Uganda, there are three forms of marriages recognized: By Registration at District level, Traditional marriages, and religious.
"In such a male dominated society, with traditional tendencies that a woman has to be submissive without ever questioning a thing, the DRB will never be enacted, " Susan Ogwang, a Lawyer with legal aid agencies advocating for women rights, said in an interview.
"No Ugandan male will want to share his property with a woman he is getting married to, because of their sinful acts of having extra-marital relations.
Asked whether punishing wife-beaters would help avert domestic violence, Ogwang said "It will certainly serve as a lesson to other men."
She hastened to add that men should be sensitised on issues affecting women so as to reduce incidents of domestic violence, saying, "Some men do not know that if a woman is battered, she is affected psychologically."
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