PRESENTATIONON

WOMEN SAFETY

BY

ROSHAN SARUKTE

CONTENT

• QUESTIONS ON WOMEN SAFETY!

• ATTACKS ON WOMEN

• RAPE

• CRIME ON WOMEN IN PIE DIAGRAM

• MEASURES FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• MEASURES FOR DOWRY

• MEASURES FOR SAFETY OF WOMEN

• CONCLUSION

QUESTIONS ON WOMEN SAFETY!

• WHAT DO FREEDOM AND EQUALITY MEAN TO

WOMEN IN INDIA?

• CAN THEY EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO LIVE WITH

DIGNITY?

• CAN THEY ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE, BE CREATIVE

AND PRODUCTIVE AND LIVE LONG AND HEALTHY

LIVES?

• ARE THEY PROTECTED FROM THE MAJOR

SOURCES OF FREEDOM – FROM VIOLENCE,

DISCRIMINATION, WANT, FEAR AND INJUSTICE?

ATTACKS ON WOMEN

• ACID ATTACKS

• ATTACKS BECAUSE OF DOWRY

• CHAIN SNAPPING

• EXTREME ABORTION

• MOLESTATION

• EVE TEASING

• DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

RAPE• WHAT’S LEGAL DEFINITION OF

RAPE ?

SEXUAL PENETRATION WITHOUT

THE INDIVIDUAL’S CONSENT,

OBTAINED BY FORCE OR THREAT

OF PHYSICAL HARM.

• WHY RAPE HAPPENS ?

• PUNISHMENT FOR RAPE ?

CRIME ON WOMEN IN PIE DIAGRAM

MEASURES FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• FOREMOST IS GIRLS PARENTS SHOULD BE SUPPORTIVE.

• GOVERNMENT SHOULD SUPPORT NGO’S WHICH TAKES CARE OF SUCH WOMEN’S CASES.

• EDUCATION IS MUST, LITERACY RATE SHOULD INCREASE, SO THAT WOMEN WHO BECOME VICTIM OF SUCH SITUATIONS CAN SAVE THEMSELVES. MOREOVER EDUCATION WILL EFFECT MEN’S MENTALITY WHO COMMITS SUCH CRIMES.

MEASURES FOR DOWRY

DOWRY PROHIBITION ACT WAS PASSED IN 1961.

• ACCORDING TO THE ACT IF A PERSON GIVES OR

TAKES DOWRY OR DIRECT AND INDIRECT

DEMANDS TO THE WIFE AND HER FAMILY IS

LIABLE TO GET PUNISHED AND IMPRISONED FOR

6 MONTHS AND ALSO PAY A FINE OF RS.5000

• IMPRISONMENT CAN EXTEND TO 2 YEARS AND

FINE AND FINE TO RS.10,000.

MEASURES FOR SAFETY OF WOMEN

• ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE NURTURANCE OF THE WOMEN SPIRIT AND IDENTITY REFLECTED IN THE AWARENESS OF AND THE PRESERVATION OF WOMEN’S CULTURAL HERITAGE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS• WOMEN MUST LEARN TO UNDERSTAND ECONOMICS AND HOW TO MAKE MONEY. THIS WILL ENABLE US TO BE FINANCIALLY SELF SUFFICIENT AND THEREFORE ECONOMICALLY INDEPENDENT OF MEN.

CONCLUSION

• GENDER INEQUALITY IS NOT THE ONLY INEQUALITY IN INDIA – WOMEN ARE

UNFREE AND UNEQUAL, BUT SO ARE DALITS, MEMBERS OF SUBORDINATE

CASTES AND COMMUNITIES, LANDLESS PEOPLE, DISPLACED PEOPLE,

MIGRANTS, THE HOMELESS, DISABLED PEOPLE AND MANY OTHER GROUPS.

• • WOMEN ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PILE IN EVERY ONE OF THESE GROUPS

– THE ‘LAST MAN’ IN GANDHIJI’S TALISMAN, THE POOREST AND MOST

POWERLESS INDIVIDUAL, IS ACTUALLY A WOMAN.