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ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF “VIOLENCE ON WOMEN”
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ANALYZING
THE IMPACT OF “VIOLENCE ON WOMEN”
AUTHORED BY - PALAK RAJ
Amity Law School, Amity
University, Patna
BA
LLB (H)
Introduction
Violence
on women is a global problem since ages, and now we are addressing this issue
to find solution for this problem. Women have been considered inferior to men
and hence their choices and preferences were not of prime importance in the
past. But in today’s world we consider men and women as equal entities. Still
the problem of violence continues in many houses till date , and women are
unable to speak about it, due to many factors some of which includes lack of
courage, lack of support, demotivation , fear of divorce and marriage
dissolution, financial problem, societal norms and morality etc. Violence on
women can be considered specifically gender based violence which has ill
effects on their mental and physical health, happening in private or
publicly. The most detrimental impact of
this is loss of self confidence and personality. Sometimes women blame
themselves only for all that is happening and try to rectify even though there
exits no mistake of them.
In
this paper, we will look into the impact of “violence on women” in multiple
segments of the society.
Effect of Violence on Women
Without
doubt, the women are the primary sufferers of violence and they are most
affected in all aspects, including mentally, socially, physically in their life.
But there are others too, who are not the primary victim , but are secondary
sufferers and have negative impact on their life. This can include the parents,
children, colleagues, friends, relatives and people dependent on the women
financially. It also has negative impact
on society as a whole.
Impact of Violence on Women
Violence
has a detrimental impact on women. They feel alone and are unable to trust
again on people as like before. The other major impact of violence is the
injuries and pain they suffer, sometimes hesitate to even visit doctor. Women
feel threatened. They always look towards doing their activities and chores
perfectly so that they don’t get beaten by their husband [or the person(s) doing violence]. It is a fair chance
that such women can suffer various mental ailments due to existing fear
extensively. Women often have to face the society with smile and hide their
pain, which is very difficult, due to peer pressure and prestige of family.
Also sometimes when they speak about their problem, some people react
differently by making them feel inferior or guilty. The question is raised on
the character of women if she choses to fight against it, and if not, then she
has to continue suffering and bearing pain.
Impact on society due to violence on
women
Society
also has negative impact when ever such cases of violence come up. This creates
fear in the minds of other girls, who fear from getting married. The men are
also into pressure because they have to prove themselves, though not all of them
are bad.
Impact on workplace due to violence
on women
Workplace
or the institution also witnesses the reduced output of such women employees
who are tortured at home. The frequency of their absence and leave increases
and overall productivity decreases. Sometimes other employees are unable to
understand the cause of strange nature of such victim women, and they are
isolated. Also it becomes challenging for victims to hide their pain.
Conclusion
Impact
of violence on women is negative and it creates fear in the mind of not only
victim, but her parents, children, relatives and society as a whole. This
creates not only physical injuries, but also mental trauma. Victims have to
suffer in many ways such as answering and justifying herself, loss of trust from
people, personality loss etc. Hence laws should be so strict that people do not
dare to do such acts.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/violence-against-women
Article Information
ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF “VIOLENCE ON WOMEN”
Authors: PALAK RAJ
- Journal IJLRA
- ISSN 2582-6433
- Published 2023/12/05
- Issue 7
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