Are women actually safe at least in her home? This seems to be a big question when you see the surveys that had undergone the recent past. Females have been fighting for centuries to get a rational appeal to her male at least as a partner. All the struggles are in vain only. Finally everything ends in the physical, mental and emotional abuse of women. The real thing that frightens me as this takes place behind the doors of a home. As a consumer don’t we have the right to get protection at least in our homes?
Today even an industrially developed country like US, loses four of its female citizens to domestic violence everyday. The studies are more shocking. Almost four million are physically tortured; half of them need medical aid or hospitalization. That is on an average four women are killed everyday by their husband. Every six minutes, a women is raped somewhere, the surveys are quite shocking. Consumer rights are not given any value in the current scenario. This is an official figure but at least five times of it go unreported.
If this is the condition of women in the most advanced country then how can we expect anything different in economically weaker and socially backward cultures? Traditional societies always blame women and this starts in the womb itself if the tests determine that it is a female over there. In the recent investigation done in Mumbai nursing home it was found that 95.5% of the fetuses were aborted compared to a far smaller percentage of male. Consumers should raise voice against this as it is going to be a serious issue in the future.
The main reason is the far sightedness of the parents. They are actually living in a society where women can be burned to death for not bringing adequate dowry to her married home. In India, an average of five women is killed, usually burnt to death in dowry related violence everyday. If the girl is having a relation to a person other than her caste, then she has to get all the tortures from the society she lives. Even if she is given adequate education there is no guaranty that she will get a secure life in the future. Currently who can provide the basic consumer right of protection to a woman?
According to a study in 2002, almost half of all Indian women are routinely slapped, kicked or beaten, almost fifty percent during their pregnancy. The interesting thing behind this, the reason may be ‘disobedience’. Even if a woman in India knows her consumer rights, rarely she speaks out them in public. The modern crimes laid on her are asking questions, trying to take decisions and refusing to obey blindly. Actually the men cannot accept a woman who isn’t dumb as cattle.
The urban woman in India is rapidly changing. But not the men. The lower income groups reported a 35% sexual violence by men and 61% by the men in highest income groups. This country then has reverse logic, increased consumer education and prosperity has made its men even more barbarous. Nowhere in the history of mankind, have women faced a more dismal situation. Does anyone have any solutions? Please add on.
Today even an industrially developed country like US, loses four of its female citizens to domestic violence everyday. The studies are more shocking. Almost four million are physically tortured; half of them need medical aid or hospitalization. That is on an average four women are killed everyday by their husband. Every six minutes, a women is raped somewhere, the surveys are quite shocking. Consumer rights are not given any value in the current scenario. This is an official figure but at least five times of it go unreported.
If this is the condition of women in the most advanced country then how can we expect anything different in economically weaker and socially backward cultures? Traditional societies always blame women and this starts in the womb itself if the tests determine that it is a female over there. In the recent investigation done in Mumbai nursing home it was found that 95.5% of the fetuses were aborted compared to a far smaller percentage of male. Consumers should raise voice against this as it is going to be a serious issue in the future.
The main reason is the far sightedness of the parents. They are actually living in a society where women can be burned to death for not bringing adequate dowry to her married home. In India, an average of five women is killed, usually burnt to death in dowry related violence everyday. If the girl is having a relation to a person other than her caste, then she has to get all the tortures from the society she lives. Even if she is given adequate education there is no guaranty that she will get a secure life in the future. Currently who can provide the basic consumer right of protection to a woman?
According to a study in 2002, almost half of all Indian women are routinely slapped, kicked or beaten, almost fifty percent during their pregnancy. The interesting thing behind this, the reason may be ‘disobedience’. Even if a woman in India knows her consumer rights, rarely she speaks out them in public. The modern crimes laid on her are asking questions, trying to take decisions and refusing to obey blindly. Actually the men cannot accept a woman who isn’t dumb as cattle.
The urban woman in India is rapidly changing. But not the men. The lower income groups reported a 35% sexual violence by men and 61% by the men in highest income groups. This country then has reverse logic, increased consumer education and prosperity has made its men even more barbarous. Nowhere in the history of mankind, have women faced a more dismal situation. Does anyone have any solutions? Please add on.
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