{"id":581,"date":"2020-10-15T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/?p=581"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:22:35","slug":"womens-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/2020\/10\/15\/womens-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"WOMEN\u2019S SAFETY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Women\u2019s safety is\nthe recent buzzword around the globe which demands the protection of women from\nvictimisation. The question that arises here is : Why has the safety of women\nbecome a topic of concern in this modern civilised world? This presumes that\nthere is something wrong with society\u2019s treatment of women. The politics of\nsnatching power from women, making them weak and destitute can be regarded as\nthe \u2018creator\u2019 of insecurity for women. It has been the claim of feminists that\nwoman has been subjugated and deprived of her rights for ages. Voices have been\nraised for the safety of woman and make her feel free to come out of the four\nwalls of her home and go out to the world of competitions and be on a par with\nthe male population. But before anyone dares to do it there occur incidences\nwhere women are marginalised, silenced, and their views and wishes are stifled.\nThat is why French feminist, Simone de Beauvoir declared boldly in <em>The\nSecond Sex,<\/em> \u201cOne is not born, but rather becomes a woman\u201d.From the\nvery birth a woman is womanised or otherised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In India, the <em>Shakti<\/em>\ncult, the concept of Shakti\u2014the female power principle\u2014was recognised thousands\nof years ago. From the pre-historic \u2018matriarchal\u2019 period, the value of woman as\nlife-giver, as a source of activating energy and power was acknowledged. But,\nin the course of time, woman has been relegated to the margin. Though\nworshipped as goddess and exalted as mother, woman is overworked and\nsystematically subordinated. Women are now facing huntsmen who harass and\nmolest them at every step, even in streets and other public spaces. Everyday we\nhear cases of women getting raped, becoming victims of domestic violence,\ntrafficking, kidnapping, acid attack or other detrimental practices. These\nincidences of violence against women often ripple across families and societies\nas a whole. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is time for the\nwomen to lift the cudgels and stand up to fight the male chauvinistic society\nin order to put an end to the age-long suppression and torture both mental and\nphysical as well as emotional. Though these practices face condemnation and\nprotests; though safety laws are introduced by the government, still they could\nnot manage to bring down the number of crimes against women. It is rightly\nsaid, \u2018Prevention is better than cure\u2019. Thus, women must take necessary\nprecautions to defend their personal safety. Women should be aware of the\nself-defence techniques like karate, for quick escape from the situation which\nthey feel is insecure for them. They need to be very conscious and careful\nwhile communicating with anyone on the Internet in the cyberspace. A stranger\nmust not be trusted blindly\u2014a predator should not be invited. Women have to be\nalways well-equipped with some useful defence tools such as pepper-spray and\nother such stuffs which may momentarily disturb the attacker compelling him to\nstop. Unknown places should never be visited with any unknown person. A phone\nmust be kept handy to make calls. Besides, they should have the courage to\nspeak up\u2014scream, yell etc. to avoid any harm if they feel bizarre about a\nsituation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Don\u2019t tell you\ngirls what to wear, tell you boys not to stare\u2019\u2014this is something the society\nwants men to understand. But we can see in practical situations that only a\nhandful practise it. It is better for a woman to be decent in her dressing\nstyle to avoid becoming a target for somebody. Besides wearing restrictive,\nshort dresses makes one unable to run or defend herself. Further, a woman\u2019s\nholistic development and awareness are possible only by imparting education to\nher. There is an important quote\u2014\u201cIf you educate a boy, you educate an\nindividual but if you educate a girl, you educate a family, society, and\nultimately the nation\u201d. Education liberates women from ignorance and enhances\nher self-esteem. Napoleon Bonaparte has rightly said, \u201cGive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>me an educated\nmother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilised nation\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole concept\nof crimes against women is actually quite different from its apparent view.\nPeople say women are weak and in need of protection but actually women are seen\nby men as dangerously powerful. Men have to constrain women since women are\nincapable of controlling themselves; not because they are weak but because\ntheir power is too great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s safety is the recent buzzword around the globe which demands the protection of women from victimisation. The question that arises here is : Why has the safety of women become a topic of concern in this modern civilised world? This presumes that there is something wrong with society\u2019s treatment of women. The politics of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}