Women in our country, even after six decades of India’s independence, continue to be helpless victims in every walk of their life. They are being tortured and beleaguered physically as well as mentally everywhere and every time. In our society, either in domestic sphere or in outer world women from all walks of life has been criminally exploited. Women who constitute one-half of the society and without whose presence the survival of the world would have been impossible, have ironically been made a subject of sexual harassment and are going through hell in this male dominated world. Almost every day a case of sexual assault is being reported in the daily newspaper. As per the national commission for women, every twenty – six minutes a woman is molested, every thirty-four minutes a rape takes place and every forty- two minutes an incident of sexual harassment takes place.
Crimes against women are as old as the civilization and equally ancient are the efforts to combat and arrest them. Women in India through the ages have been victimized, humiliated, tortured and exploited. Throughout the world, millions of women live in conditions of abject deprivation of and attacks against their fundamental human rights for no reason other than that they are women. Being a member of the human family, she has the right to be treated as human from womb to tomb.
Violence against women, more particularly within the domestic environment has become a serious social issue and of our concern. Domestic Violence occurs in all geographical areas of India and in all socio-economic and cultural groups. Millions of women in India suffer beatings and verbal abuse at home. It directly affects the victims, their children, their families and has repercussions on the quality of their life. Domestic Violence means that any act of violence that result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, perpetrated by their male partners whether they are married or not and whether they live together or not. In fact, violence against women is a discrimination against the women community which is largely related to cultural stereotypes. It is one of the strongest expressions of gender stereotypes.
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