Overcoming The Shadow........... A Challenge
How India treats its women.....
Once the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru said, “you can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women”. In India irrespective of the caste, creed, religion and social status, the overall status of women is lower than men. The findings point to life-long neglect of women in India.
Followings are the excerpts from the BBC News,
How India treats its women by Soutik Biswas 29 December 2012
'Female foetuses are aborted and baby girls killed after birth, leading to an appallingly skewed sex ratio. Many of those who survive face discrimination, prejudice, violence and neglect all their lives, as single or married women.'
'With more than 24,000 reported rape cases in 2011, more than half (54.7%) of the victims were aged between 18 and 30. Most disturbingly, according to police records, the offenders were known to their victims in more than 94% of the cases. Delhi accounted for over 17% of the total number of rape cases in the country.'
'Police records from 2011 show kidnappings and abductions of women were up 19.4%, women being killed in disputes over dowry payments by 2.7%, torture by 5.4%, molestation by 5.8% and trafficking by an alarming 122% over the previous year.'
'New research by economists estimates that in India, more than 2 million women are missing in a given year; roughly 12% of the missing women disappear at birth, 25% die in childhood, 18% at the reproductive ages, and 45% at older ages.'
'Deaths from fire-related incidents, they say, is a major cause - each year more than 100,000 women are killed by fires in India. The researchers say many cases could be linked to demands over a dowry leading to women being set on fire.'
'Clearly, many Indian women face threats to life at every stage - violence, inadequate healthcare, inequality, neglect, bad diet, lack of attention to personal health and well-being.'
'TrustLaw, a news service run by Thomson Reuters, has ranked India as the worst G20 country in which to be a woman.'
Overcoming The Shadow........... A Challenge
How India treats its women.....
Once the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru said, “you can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women”. In India irrespective of the caste, creed, religion and social status, the overall status of women is lower than men. The findings point to life-long neglect of women in India.
Followings are the excerpts from the BBC News,
How India treats its women by Soutik Biswas 29 December 2012
'Female foetuses are aborted and baby girls killed after birth, leading to an appallingly skewed sex ratio. Many of those who survive face discrimination, prejudice, violence and neglect all their lives, as single or married women.'
'With more than 24,000 reported rape cases in 2011, more than half (54.7%) of the victims were aged between 18 and 30. Most disturbingly, according to police records, the offenders were known to their victims in more than 94% of the cases. Delhi accounted for over 17% of the total number of rape cases in the country.'
'Police records from 2011 show kidnappings and abductions of women were up 19.4%, women being killed in disputes over dowry payments by 2.7%, torture by 5.4%, molestation by 5.8% and trafficking by an alarming 122% over the previous year.'
'New research by economists estimates that in India, more than 2 million women are missing in a given year; roughly 12% of the missing women disappear at birth, 25% die in childhood, 18% at the reproductive ages, and 45% at older ages.'
'Deaths from fire-related incidents, they say, is a major cause - each year more than 100,000 women are killed by fires in India. The researchers say many cases could be linked to demands over a dowry leading to women being set on fire.'
'Clearly, many Indian women face threats to life at every stage - violence, inadequate healthcare, inequality, neglect, bad diet, lack of attention to personal health and well-being.'
'TrustLaw, a news service run by Thomson Reuters, has ranked India as the worst G20 country in which to be a woman.'