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The current study examined the gender differences in MV among the matrilineal ethnic minority <jats:italic>Garo<\/jats:italic>, patrilineal ethnic minority <jats:italic>Santal<\/jats:italic>, and the patrilineal mainstream <jats:italic>Bengali<\/jats:italic> communities in rural Bangladesh. Adopting a cross-sectional design, we randomly included 1,929 currently married men and women from 24 villages. We used cross-tabulations as well as multivariate logistic regressions to estimate the ethnic and gender differences in MV. Data revealed that women were widely exposed to different types of MV, while only a few men experienced such abuses. It showed that 95.6% of the women experienced emotional abuse, 63.5% physical abuse, 71.4% sexual abuse, and 50.6% poly-victimization, whereas these rates were quite low among the men (emotional = 9.7%, physical = 0.7%, sexual = 0.1%). No men reported poly-victimization. The odds ratio (OR) for emotional, physical, and sexual MV were respectively, 184.44 (95% CI = 93.65\u2212363.24, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>&lt;0.001), 449.23 (95% CI = 181.59\u22121111.35, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>&lt;0.001), and 2789.71(95% CI = 381.36\u221220407.08, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>&lt;0.001) for women compared to men. Data further revealed that matrilineal <jats:italic>Garo<\/jats:italic> women experienced less MV (emotional = 90.7%, physical = 53.4%, sexual = 64.0%, poly = 38.8%) than the patrilineal <jats:italic>Santal<\/jats:italic> (emotional = 99.4%, physical = 67.3%, sexual = 71.3%, poly = 53.9%) and <jats:italic>Bengali<\/jats:italic> women (emotional = 96.6%, physical = 69.6%, sexual = 78.8%, poly = 58.9%). Multivariate regressions also showed that the <jats:italic>Bengali<\/jats:italic> society perpetrated more physical (<jats:italic>OR<\/jats:italic> = 1.90, 95% CI = 1.27\u22122.85, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.002) and sexual (<jats:italic>OR<\/jats:italic> = 2.04, 95% CI = 1.34\u22123.10, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.001) MV than the <jats:italic>Garo<\/jats:italic> society. It appears that MV is largely a gendered issue in the country. Though both women and men can be the victims of MV, the nature\/extent of victimization noticeably differs according to the social organization. Matrilineal society appears to be less abusive than the patrilineal one. 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