Eve Teasing is Perennial Problem: A Study of Warangal District

Abstract

Many Young girls of India are curtailed from education, which is their basic right due to eve teasing. Parents are afraid of their daughter’s honor, family and social prestige, so ensure the safety of the daughters; sometimes they take the decision to withdraw their daughters from schools and colleges. Most of the time this type of occurrence like eve teasing happen when girls were in the way to educational institutions. Eve teasing is a ridiculous form of enjoyment for men and a physical as well as mental torment for women. This is one of the daily problems women in Indian society face. Of all the forms that violence against women can assume, eve teasing is the most ubiquitous and insidious because it is considered normal behaviour and not an assault to females. This paper provides an analysis of the magnitude of eve teasing and its relation to age, socio-economic and psychological factors. Many acts can be added to this compendium. It has also been defined as crime committed against women everyday but the criminals are not punished and continue violating a women’s privacy assuming they have a right to do so. It is an offence every women faces in her life and not just once and ignores the offence and accept it as a price she has to pay for being a women. Further the making of unwanted sexual remarks or advances by a man to a woman in a public place. Sexual abuse or molestation is the forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When the force is immediate, of short duration, or infrequent .society’s attitude towards this particular violence against women has been dismal. According to constitution of India, women are legal and prominent citizens of the country and have equal rights when compared to men .Due to lack of credence from the male dominant society, women suffer immensely. Many cases of eve teasing and molestation have been reported in Warangal. In the present research paper an attempt has been made to understand the factors of the problem through an empirical study.