Indian women burn, often due to domestic violence.
March 3rd 2009 09:10
Indian women are three times more likely to die in fires than Indian men, a study published in the Lancet medical journal has found. Specifically, 106 000 women died by fire in 2001. The women most at risk are between the ages of 15 and 34, and the reasons for these fires are mainly kitchen accidents, self-immolation (setting oneself of fire), and domestic violence which is often made to look like a kitchen accident, often because of a dispute over a women's dowry. Source.
India Jaising, director of the Women's Rights Initiative of the Lawyers Collective in New Delhi, says when women approach the authorities over dowry disputes, the authorities do not take them seriously. She accuses authorities of only 'paying lip service' to the issue of disguising such murders as kitchen accidents. Source.
Some of you might be wondering why I'm blogging about this. Well, the women in question are largely aged between 15 and 34, which means some of them are from Generation Y, thus placing them in my blogging domain. I'd also like to highlight the struggles of female Gen Yers to gain social equality (note we do not hear of men being burnt over dowries) and on a more macabre note, the different suicide methods popular across the world. I'm curious as to know why self-immolation is a popular modus operate in that region of the globe- I personally would want something a little less painful, but I digress.
So, women being set on fire; sometimes I wonder how we can have iPods on one end, and this at the other, and still be living on the same planet at the same time. *sigh* well I guess that's diversity for you.
India Jaising, director of the Women's Rights Initiative of the Lawyers Collective in New Delhi, says when women approach the authorities over dowry disputes, the authorities do not take them seriously. She accuses authorities of only 'paying lip service' to the issue of disguising such murders as kitchen accidents. Source.
Some of you might be wondering why I'm blogging about this. Well, the women in question are largely aged between 15 and 34, which means some of them are from Generation Y, thus placing them in my blogging domain. I'd also like to highlight the struggles of female Gen Yers to gain social equality (note we do not hear of men being burnt over dowries) and on a more macabre note, the different suicide methods popular across the world. I'm curious as to know why self-immolation is a popular modus operate in that region of the globe- I personally would want something a little less painful, but I digress.
So, women being set on fire; sometimes I wonder how we can have iPods on one end, and this at the other, and still be living on the same planet at the same time. *sigh* well I guess that's diversity for you.
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