India a filthy Hub of Women Harassments

India a filthy Hub of Women Harassments

Poor Conditions for Women all over India makes them most miserable creature on Earth

Statistics from 2011 showed that on average a woman is raped every 10 minutes in India

Indian Women are not received that level of love, affection, respect, which offers to animals like Cows, monkeys, Rats, Snakes and other miserable

It's been over sixty years since India gained independence, but Indian women are still not allowed to move independently. Though woman is worshipped in India as Goddess, people can't just restrain from committing atrocities against them. Women here experience many hardships at various places right from home to working places.

In India, woman spends life either in their parent's home or of their husband's home.  Justice, liberty and equality for her depends on the condition of these families. Due to industrialization, globalization, development in various fields, role of women is changing rapidly in India.  Today, women in India are showing progress in almost all the fields such as education, economics, politics, media, art, space and culture, service sectors, science and technology, etc.

Everybody knows that in developed countries like America, the couples do household works together, but it is not the case in India. Here, women have to do the household works alone while the husbands sit in front of the TV or read the newspaper slouching in a couch. After about eight to twelve hours of work, a typical working woman in India has to return home and make food for the rest of the family. There are, of course, husbands who help wives, but majority of husbands fall into the other category.

  As the role of women has shifted from household work to commercial world, offences against women are also increased day by day. Women in India have been facing violence in all spheres of life for thousands of years. They face domestic, political and social violence also making it a multi faceted and complicated issue.  Violence against women is partly a result of gender relations that assumes men to be superior to women. Given the subordinate status of women, much of gender violence is considered normal and enjoys social sanction.

TYPES OF OFFENCES AGAINST WOMEN:

Women in India are facing following types of offences:

• Physical assault,
• Mental abuse,
• Sexual harassment 
• Rape,
• Sexual exploitation,
• Forced prostitution,
• Kidnapping and abduction,
• Female foeticide and infanticide,
• Murder
• Humiliation & abuse
• Domestic violence, etc.

Indian Women Have no Right to equality, they are Discriminated on ground of race, caste, sex etc., they don’t have Equality of Opportunity, No Right to Freedom, No Right to life & Liberty, all over India they are treated as  Goods of traffic in human beings & forced labor, they don’t have Freedom of conscience & free profession, practice & propagation of religion, All over India Men and Women have no equally right to an adequate means of livelihood, neither Equal pay for equal work for both for men & women nor Health & strength of workers men and women & tender age of children are also abused & citizens are forced by eco. , Necessity. Another problem that many of the women in rural areas of India face is that they can't move about freely at nights.

 As in other countries throughout the world, rape is common in India. Rape is a social disease. Hardly a day passes without a case of rape being reported in Indian newspapers and media. Women belonging to low castes and tribal women are more at risk. What is sad about rape in India is the lack of seriousness with which the crime is often treated. Statistics from 2011 showed that on average a woman is raped every 10 minutes in India.

 Women's groups attest that the strict and conservative attitudes about sex and family privacy contribute to ineffectiveness of India's rape laws. Victims are often reluctant to report rape. In an open court victims must prove that the rapist sexually penetrated them in order to get a conviction. This can be especially damaging. After proving that she has been raped, a victim is often ostracized from her family and community. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that rape laws are inadequate and definitions so narrow that prosecution is made difficult.

Dowry system in India is actually illegal according to the laws. But the laws imposed have not removed the curse of the system completely. A girl’s family is forced to give some amount of money or gold while she gets married. Whatever may be the lump sum amount given, the in-laws are never satisfied and once the girl enters their house, they torture both the girl and her family, insisting to give them more dowry. Although all the cited problems occur frequently, very few are reported.

The biggest of all crimes against married woman is wife-beating. It is regarded the biggest crime next to rape. Several incidents have been reported in which wives were burnt alive or killed by some other means by their in-laws and husbands. But, as said earlier, the reported cases form only a miniscule of the actual number. I am not saying that there is no one here to take action against these crimes, but I would like to point out that the jurisdiction seems to be too slow in taking actions. There are programs creating awareness among people about crimes against women, but you cannot change someone unless he wishes to do so. Changes should be done starting from the individual level. The biggest curse of our society is that it is dominated by a pack of male chauvinists, who can't just accept that women are also human beings. Unless these people try to change their minds, this society cannot prosper. 

 

Though violent conduct is prohibited both by law and by University rules, a specific policy defining sexual harassment is required to address the specific form and extent of sexual harassment in the University. The policy recognizes that sexual harassment is not an offence merely amounting to disruption of law and order. Sexual harassment in educational institutions is an act which violates gender equality and right to education in healthy environment for all. Sexual harassment not only affects students but reinforces gender-based discrimination for everyone.

Sexual harassment cases in educational institutions should be dealt with seriously. It affects personality, mental & physical growth, development of the young girls. Secrecy should be maintained in such matters. Publicity of such matters affects life of students. It is observed from the reports of the newspapers that sometimes Teachers, Professors, Trustees, Doctors, Heads of the Departments etc. of the educational institutions in the various fields like medical, engineering, architect, hotel management, law etc. takes undue advantage of the situation of students during examinations, study tours, picnics etc. Teaching is a noble profession and if teacher is found guilty of the sexual harassment offence then it affects mind of the society especially girls about education system. Therefore, some stringent measures should be taken to prevent such cases in the educational institutions.

Shamelessly India also celebrates International Women Day every year, but there is constant increase in the offences relating to women especially sexual harassment to women. It has been observing such cases 

at all India level. This is not a problem of women in a particular Province of India but it is of whole Indian women problem. Woman plays a vital role in Indian society but she has not received that level of love, affection, respect, which offers to animals like Cows, monkeys, Rats, Snakes and other miserable creatures in India as they are Indian Nation God. Global community should take Notice and help Indians to maintain the dignity of women, and then only INDIA can celebrate International Women Day in the real sense.