Violence against women in India

Violence of gender in India becomes more brutal and frequent everyday. Although, everytime more women take the courage to reported. the 6th of this month, a 14 year old teenager was light on fire after being a victim of a group rape, and soon after of reprting the crime. She was taking to emergeny at the hospital, but she soon died because of the gravity of her wounds. The statistics on a national level indicate that the incident impact the whole country, but the worst part is that is a common case in India.

Sreelekha Nair, an investigator of the Studies Center for the development of women, said that according to the statictics in the period of 2007-2011, the violence that women from India suffered from their husbands is at the top of the list of gender violence cases with 99.135 reports last year.

the principal cause of mendieval mentality and patriarchal that is prominent in India. This leads men to deny women as an equal human being, independents and self-sufficient. Acoording to the investigators, the participation of women in public offices promotes politics sensitive to the gender violence. Also the victims feel more confident about reporting the violence if they know there women in power. 

Sociologists believe that gender violence could change by proving women with a better access to property, education, and job.