Essay on Violence against women Complete Essay for Class 10, Class 12 and Graduation and other classes.
Violence against women is not a new or recent phenomenon. Women have been the victims of violence all through the ages, in all societies, cultures, regions or religious communities in the world.
In the Vedic period, Indian women enjoyed a relatively comfortable position. Gradually, violence against them began to be practiced; the doors of educational, economic, social, political and cultural opportunities were gradually closed for them.
Today, violence against women in India has assumed an alarming proportion. According to one estimate, there are about thirty specific forms of violence being committed against women from the pre-natal stage to their death. Such forms include feticide, infanticide, deliberate check on the supply of sufficient or/ and nutritious food, medical neglect, deprivation of educational opportunities, child marriages, sexual abuse of the girl child, forced marriages, rapes prostitution, sexual harassment, pregnancies at small intervals, wife-battering, bride-burning, cursing the widows, witch-hunting, neglect of the old women, etc.
It is not just actual physical violence that is used to intimidate women. Even the threat of it is enough cause for mental agony and that too is a form of violence. The fear of being beaten, having to bear the pain, the humiliation and trauma of rape helps to keep women in a state of subjugation
The remedy for violence is not very far to seek. It is within us. What we have to do is to entirely leave the animal kingdom, be human and to give humane treatment to others. Law-enforcing machinery must be trained and made sensitive to the issue. Women must organize themselves in groups and raise a collective voice against a system that turns a blind eye towards, if not actually condones, violent acts against women. Every public minded person and the media inst contribute to spreading a civilized attitude in society.
