Misogyny In India

Yesterday morning CNN reporter Harmeet Shah Singh posted is article entitled “3 girls found dead in India well; Mother calls for culprits to be hanged”. This story comes a 23 year old woman was gang raped and murdered in broad daylight on a New Delhi bus in December. Therefore this story is unfolding in a volatile atmosphere. According to the article three girls, 6, 9 and 11 years old, were reported missing and two days later were found in a well. Medical reports claim that the children drowned and had been sexually assaulted. As seen in the title the mother of these young girls is very angry. She has made claims that the police did not respond quickly enough. She believes they could have found her daughter sooner if they looked in the neighboring areas. She is calling for the men held responsible to be hung in the public. Of course the police claim that they did everything they could. In contrast, the officer that was in charge of patrolling that area has since been they fired. As far as locating the guilty parties they have questioned some suspects but have made no arrests as of yet.

This single incident may not be a social issue in itself but it is the result of some major ones such as Women’s Right, Misogyny, Selective Abortions, Discrimination, Domestic Violence to name a few. India has seen a rash of incidences like the one presented in the above article. The women of India are not safe. As presented in another CNN article entitled “Challenges of being a woman in India”.  Women are dealing with discrimination from the womb to the tomb. Families are aborting their unborn daughters to avoid the responsibility of a dowry. Dowry is a Indian custom, currently illegal, that requires the family of the bride to pay her husband’s family a large sum of money and pay for an elaborate wedding ceremony. Although illegal there is no regulation. Therefore unborn daughters are killed; young girls are killed, leaving there to be an overpopulation of men who prey on these women who made it through. It is a never ending cycle of misogyny. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/world/asia/india-girls-deaths/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/12/world/asia/india-women-challenge/index.html