The semantic meaning of ‘crime against women’ is direct or indirect physical or mental cruelty to women. Various kinds of violence against women are eve-teasing, molestation, bigamy, fraudulent marriage, adultery and enticement of married women abduction and kidnapping, rape, harassment to women at working place, wife beating, dowry death, female child abuse and abuse of elderly female etc. The alarming rate in the crimes against women can to a large extent ...
Society is generally sensitised to the injustice perpetuated on the women over the centuries. The problems of women reared in a traditional set-up and ethos remain even when they take up employment. The face of the managerial superiority of the father, brothers, or the husband is so deep-rooted in the society that even though a young-woman becomes the bread winner or one more earning member of the family, she does not enjoy the economic independence that ought to ...