Women Exploitation: Violence against Women in India

ABSTRACT Violence against women is very important and contemporary issue of discussion in India. In this regard, the policies of Indian government always have tried to overcome and solve the problem of violence against women by providing them valuable justice. But even after providing so many legislations and constitutional rights in favor of women by Indian government, still, women of India have faced many types of violence such as gang rape, spousal rape (marital rape) and sexual harassment especially. The present study is focused on the violence against women occurring in Indian society. The study reveals that very few women in India have approached to the help of police force in emergency situations, so that, there is a great need of conducting various awareness programs among women and Indian society about various preventive and remedial measures of violence against women. There must be to set up a women helpline team which serves as a quick redressal mechanism for protection of women against this mercy less crime. Keywords: Women Exploitation, Rape and Sexual Harassment, Crime against Women. "Yaa Devi Sarva Bhooteshu Matru Roopena Samsthita Namastasyai Namastasyai Namastasya Namo Namaha" Any act of gender-based violence which may result into suffering physical, sexual, psychological (arbitrary deprivation of women liberty) exploitation or abuse, whether it is happening at either home, educational institution or another work places, comes under the major issue of violence against women. India is 7 th largest country by area and the second most populous with over 1.2 billion people, the most populous democracy over the world. The Indian economy is world's 10 th largest by nominal GDP (Gross Domestic Product). But in this India annual growth rate of crimes against women (2001-2011) is also 4.7%. Total numbers of crimes against women are 2, 28,650. Topic of violence against women is not new for India. Violence against women is a universal and a serious problem for society that harms women's rights. Women tolerate many problems during lifetime since birth. Different types of women violence such as Domestic violence, Female infanticide and feticide, Dowry system etc. Rape and sexual harassment are two out of them serious crime. These are the two sides of the same coin. Number of cases of rape is increased continuously in India. In daily lives, a woman suffers many uneven 1 M.phil