Understanding violence Against women

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Topic: Understanding violence against woman

Violence against women typically means the crimes committed against women of any age, caste, and creed. The crimes can be of any kind; usually, they include murders, abuse, molestation, sexual assault, and infanticide. The number of crimes committed against women in the world keeps rising every year. 

The crimes against women in world take several forms. Mostly, these crimes result in lifelong trauma or death. Dowry deaths are one such example of a crime committed against Indian women. According to the age-old Indian tradition, the bride’s family is supposed to reward the groom with a considerable sum of money; this is the concept of dowry.

In rural areas, the bride, usually belonging to a poor household, is unable to meet the groom’s high demand for the dowry money. They fail to fulfill and pay the amount the groom asks for. In such cases, often, the bride falls victim to verbal and physical abuse of the groom. The woman is beaten, abused, and regularly molested, for her family’s incapability to fulfill the dowry. Dowry deaths are mostly seen in the rural areas and form an accountable part of the crimes committed against women.

Rapes and nonconsensual sexual activities form a large portion of the violence committed against women. Statistics reveal that women are the most prone to rare in the Indian subcontinent; it is the most dangerous country as far as the number of rape cases is concerned. Rape is typically the sexual intercourse carried on with the woman without her consent. As of 2016, 10.9% of the crimes committed against women were for rape. It is indeed true that women are now becoming more aware and open about the topic of rape; they are opening up about their own stories of sexual assault etc. However, the numbers in world keep rising. The perpetrators often go unpunished. This is due to the judgements given by the courts officials are very late. Due to this reason the criminals are left unpunished. 

Sometimes, the criminals dies but still the victim is alive, but then the case closes. So, as the result the victim has not given the justice. 

Men perpetrate nine out of every ten crimes committed against women; this proves how the origin of crimes against women stems from the deep-rooted patriarchal ideology in the minds of the Indian men. Their belief that the male is physically superior to the female leads them to force themselves on their female counterparts and inflict pain on the female community. 

Last but not least, we the young generations need to bring the change in the society because we are living in 21st century which is termed as modern days,etc. If we are bringing changes in our lifestyles then on the other hand we should also bring changes in our thinking too. So, we are the one who need to bring change in our thinking and in our society and this can be done by spreading awareness, taking part in different organisations like UN women, PCVC, etc., leading campaigns.

We should not forget that the person who first went on the moon was also a woman, etc. We can take many such examples. In every field there is a little bit hand of women too. So, I would like to conclude by saying that we, the young generations are the one who can change the mentality of the society and always respect the woman, girls,etc. no matter whether she is elder than you or not.