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Violence against women in India

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Perpetuation

Perpetuation of violence against women in India continues as a result of many systems of sexism and Patriarchy in place within Indian culture. Beginning in early childhood, young girls are given less access to education than their male counterparts. 80% of boys will go to primary school, where as just over half of girls will have that same opportunity. Gender based inequality is present even before that however, as it is reported that female children are often fed less and are given less hearty diets that contain little to no butter, milk, or other more hearty foods. Even when girls are taught about the inequity they will face in life, boys are uneducated on this and are therefore unprepared to treat women and girls as equals.

Later in life, the social climate continues to reinforce inequality, and consequently, violence against women. Married women in India tend to see violence as a routine part of being married. Women who are put in a situation where they are being subjected to gender-based violence are often victim shamed, being told that their safety is their own responsibility and that whatever may happen to them is their own fault. In addition to this, women are very heavily pressured into complicity because of social and cultural beliefs, such as family honor.

Even when a woman who is a victim of gender-based violence or crime does decide to report the incident, it is not always likely that she will have access to the support she would need to handle the situation properly. Law enforcement officers and doctors will often choose not to report a case, due to fear that it might in some way damage their own honor, or otherwise bring shame to them. In the case that she gets help from a doctor, there is no standard procedure for determining whether a woman is a victim of Sexual assault and doctors often resort to highly invasive and primitive methods such as the infamous "two-finger test" which can worsen the problem and are can be psychologically damaging for the victim.

Some organizations exist to help end the perpetuation of violence against women in India, most notably Dilaasa, a hospital based crisis center for women operated in collaboration with CEHAT [1] with aims to provide proper care for survivors of violence against women and work towards ending gender inequality. From 2000 to 2013, about 3,000 victims of sexual assault, domestic abuse, or other forms of gender-based violence have registered with Dilaasa.

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Violence against women in India refers to physical or sexual violence committed against Indian women, typically by a man. Common forms of violence against women in India include domestic abuse, sexual assault, murder, just to name a few. In order to be considered violence against women, the act must be committed solely because the victim is female. Most typically, these acts are committed by men as a result of the long-standing gender inequalities present in the country.
Violence against women in India is actually more present than it may appear at first glance, as many expressions of violence are not considered crimes, or may otherwise go unreported or undocumented due to certain Indian cultural values and beliefs. These reasons all contribute to India's Gender Inequality Index rating of 0.524 in 2017, putting it in the bottom 20% of ranked countries for that year.

A formation of human chain at India Gate by the women from different walks of life at the launch of a National Campaign on prevention of violence against women, in New Delhi on October 02, 2009

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Extent

It is important to note that exact statistics on case occurrences are very difficult to obtain, as a large number of cases go unreported. This is due in large part to the threat of ridicule or shame on the part of the potential reporter. For similar reasons, law enforcement officers are more motivated to accept offers of bribery from the family of the accused.

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Murders

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Bride burning murder is often set up to appear to be a suicide or accident, sometimes by setting the woman on fire in such a way that it appears she ignited while cooking at a kerosene stove. Still as amany as 5,000 dowry deaths are recorded yearly in 2018

honor killing

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rape

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Despite its prevalence, rape accounted for 10.9% of reported cases of violence against women in 2016.

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Childhood

Part of the reason why violence against women in India continues to be an issue is that submitting to the abuse is conditioned in children from a young age. LOOK FOR INFO IN FORMAL SYSTEMATIC RESPONSE

-not seen as offense

-12%mortality rate for girls under 1

-young girs fed less

-half of girls not in school, 80% of students are male

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SOURCES

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Jaising, Indira. “Violence Against Women: The Indian Perspective.” Women's Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives, by Julie Stone. Peters and Andrea Wolper, Routledge, 2008, pp. 51–56.

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