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Rapes, infanticide, harassment - Is there a solution?


Few thoughts:

Heinous crimes like rapes & female foeticide/ infanticide are symptoms of some larger malaise plaguing the society. While handing out exemplary punishment, speedy judiciary, teaching the kids and adolescents to respect everyone is a part of it, I believe it is incomplete. Some systemic issues need to be addressed to minimize these issues in long run. I believe that the most important of this is economic independence of women.


- I don't have any data to support it, but economically independent women are more likely to raise a voice against wrongdoings against her, be it physical or mental abuse, sexual harassment, foeticide or rapes. These issues are often under-reported because of economic reasons & tendency to "live with it", chiefly because of economic reasons. If more and more women are economically independent, more likely would be the protest & it will deter a substantial chunk of people from mistreating women.

- The proportion of females in the work force is increasing, but is it enough? Probably no. Partly, it is due to lack of education, but partly it is due to conservative (rather regressive) mindset prevailing in the society, where other people decide whether "job/ work karwaayenge" or not (As if they are talking about an inanimate object that they have or have acquired). In fact, I know of people who know this is incorrect, but rarely raise voice against this (or at max, raise a shrill token protest, but nothing more).
At the face of it, it is not life threatening or anything for many people, but it does give rise to several systemic issues.

- While kids & teenagers should be taught to be respect people, avoid discrimination and not have false sense of inflated egos or powers, it may not be enough. A part of this "respect" needs to be "demanded" (and this will come majorly from education and economic independence).

- There is often a stigma attached to talking freely about such issues & most important is "What will people think?" A chunk of it can be reduced with economic independence of women, since they are not that dependent upon what others will say as it might not affect her survival, which would have otherwise been the case. Also, an economically independent woman is more likely to be aware of importance of speaking up.

-Even economic independence is not something that will be handed over in a platter. Getting it might entail long struggle, disobeying few peopleand ruffling a few feathers.

Above steps might not wipe off the crime altogether (it will probably be too Utopian to assume!), but I believe  they can certainly reduce certain kinds of crime drastically.

What do you people think?




Comments

  1. Well written..Along with economic independence of women..a sense of respect and equality should be taught to coming generation which I believe is lacking a lot so that they do not even think of committing such crimes

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  2. Setiap orang yang melakukan kebaikan tentu akan mendapatkan kebaikan, dan setiap orang yang berbuat buruk maka Tuhan akan membalasnya dengan hal yang buruk. Tulisan yang menarik, salam kenal dari Indonesia.

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  3. I completely accept with ur thinking.But the grassroot cause for this is our mindset.Different rapists have different ways of thinking, they are all sexist. At the least, they believe they have more right to a woman’s body than a woman does, herself.
    We most probably belong to the bloodline of DURYODHANA, who first taught us how to rape in broad daylight. Now that we have discovered our heritage we really don’t give it a damn whether it’s a bus or a car.
    Starting from lord rama who questioned sita,duryodhana who sexually harrased to the modern time harish chandra who selled his wife.We think we have authority over women more than themselves.

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  4. "it might entail long struggle, disobeying few people and ruffling a few feathers." Both men and women need to step up and fight injustice done to them, only then the collective voice / opinion will become stronger. For most women, having no financial independence makes doing that impossible in 95% cases. So we are stuck in a vicious circle.

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