Violence against women

1. PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVES.
ROLE OF EDUCATION TO
CURB VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN
Submitted to Submitted by
Dr George Varghese sir Anjali krishnan
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Assistant professor Natural
science

2. The United Nations defines
violence against women as “any
act of gender-based violence that
results in, or is likely to result in,
physical, sexual, or mental harm
or suffering to women, including
threats of such acts, coercion or
arbitrary deprivation of liberty,
whether occurring in public or in
private life.”

3. Criminal violences – rape, abduction, murder
Domestic violences – dowry death, wife battering, sexual
abuse, maltreatment of widows or elderly women.
Social violences – forcing for female foeticide, eve-teasing,
refusing to give share to women in property, Sati,
harassing daughter in law for dowry.

5. Causal factors at various levels
include :
Individual level - Alcohol,
psychopathology & personality
trait, gender schemas.
Institutional level – Family,
School, Religion.
Social level – Sexual scripts,
Cultural Mores etc.

9. ROLE OF EDUCATION IN
CURBING VIOLENCE
 Education with specially designed curriculum is the only effective solution.
 UN women, in partnership with the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts(WAGGGS) has developed a global non formal education curriculum-
”VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE” is a co- educational curriculum designed for
various age groups ranging from 5 to 25 years.
 It provide young people with tools and expertise to understand the root cause of
violence in their community, to educate and involve their peer and communities to
prevent violence.
 To learn about where to access support if violence is experienced.

10.  Ways to achieve gender equality :
1. Provide women with access to legal representation and
opportunities to pursue justice against violence through
formal legal system.
2. Promote gender equality in schools and widen education
for girls.
3. End forced early marriages and premature pregnancy.
4. Bring greater attention to violence that is perpetrated by
partner.
5. Revise marriage laws that are institutionally biased
against women.

11. LAWS THAT PROTECT WOMEN AND
THEIR RIGHTS
 Prohibition of child marriage act, 2006
 Special marriage act, 1954
 Dowry Prohition act, 1961
 Indian divorce act, 1969
 Maternity benefit act, 1861
 Medical termination of pregnancy act, 1971
 Sexual harassment of women at work place(prevention,
prohibition and redressal) act, 2013.
 National commission for women act, 1990
 Equal remuneration act, 1976
 Indescent representation of women(prevention) act, 1986