Increasing number of rape cases India and the occasional insensitive courts verdicts and statements by people in responsible positions make us wonder in which direction India is marching in the travel towards ending all types of violence against women. Rape is heinous crime and leaves a lifelong scar in the minds of women. Being a woman is not easy when you live in India, because, in India at every 20 minutes a girl is raped. Rape is a black spot in our country.
The rapists do not differentiate between girl children to senior women. No place seems to be safe for women in India. Not only have the work places, tourist spots, traveling vehicles and hostels ,even schools and colleges and places or worships and their own homes have become the crime spots. Only in the current decade there is slow but steady progress in education, training and employment of women. Women are determined now to achieve higher social and economic status in life, so that gender injustice in the name religion, culture, tradition and patriarchal attitude would not continue and they would enjoy freedom to decide the course and goals of their lives. Only recently , they enter high profile challenging jobs which involves late nights stay in offices , travels, transfers and hostel stay etc.,
But the increasing rape cases and the insensitivity towards it would lead to family’s disapproval to women’s empowerment efforts. Then, India’s women empowerment process history would suffer a setback. Already India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries in the World as per the Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2021, becoming the third-worst performer in South Asia.01-Apr-2021
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