THE STIFLED VOICES: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

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  • Vasundhara Mahajan 5th Year BCOM LLB Student, Amity Law School Noida, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh Author
  • Rhythm Aggarwal 5th Year BCOM LLB Student, Amity Law School Noida, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh Author

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Abstract

It’s unfortunate, that we live in the part of a world where women do not want to wake up from sleep, where offences like rape are feared more than death, where 1000 mouths are stuffed and words are shoved. 

Brutish is the world that leaves tyranny at the hands of men and female voices carried away into silent screams of delirium. Newspapers are flooded and the world talks about sexual assault, but still, rapists go Scott free on the ground no marks on his penis, whereas a ruptured hymen and bite marks on the victim’s body sum up to no resistance. Dating back to history during the early vedic period women were dignified and offered a respectable status in the society, women hood was considered an honourable position, moreover there was sheer agony against the dowry system. In fact the “ladies first” concept was also introduced during the manusmriti tenure. With passage of time the position of women got polluted and eventually deteriorated where they were denied education, were overloaded with responsibilities, a girl child was seen as a burden on the shoulders of the family. Besides this motherhood had been magnified as indemnity of an imposed reality of life in which women were merely consummated for a male progeny. The contribution of women towards the society was over shadowed by that of men. Self-sacrifice for the benefit of male members started to be considered as a women’s duty. 

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16-08-2020

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Vasundhara Mahajan, and Rhythm Aggarwal. “THE STIFLED VOICES: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ”. Journal of Legal Studies & Research, vol. 6, no. 4, Aug. 2020, pp. 233-9, https://journal.thelawbrigade.com/jlsr/article/view/2465.