Most Indian girls feel unsafe to go out to meet friends, take morning walks
After public
transportation, local markets, private tuitions or roads leading to school were
regarded as most unsafe among young girls
Current Affairs News:
India’s
richest girls and young women, aged 11 to 18, felt the least safe among all
income groups in public spaces, according to a new report that explored safety
perceptions among adolescent girls.
Across
urban (47%) and rural (40%) areas, young girls reported feeling more
susceptible to molestation or abuse while using public transport, said the
report, Wings 2018: World Of India’s Girls, released by Save The Children in
India, an international non-governmental organisation. This finding was
particularly true for girls from higher income groups (53%), belonging to the
other backward classes (OBC) and general castes (45%), according to the study
Girls
from medium and small towns (51%) reported feeling more unsafe than those in
large cities (44%), small villages (42%) and large villages (39%).
“A
possible reason [for greater fear among adolescent girls of higher income
groups] could be that these girls lead a more cocooned life without the
required level of resilience and therefore feel relatively more threatened,”
the study said.
India
is considered to be the least safe country in the world for women with the
worst record for sexual violence, harassment from cultural and traditional
practices, and human trafficking, according to a global perception poll carried
out by Thomson Reuters Foundation, IndiaSpend reported on June 26, 2018. A
failure to improve conditions led to the country now ranking the most dangerous
for women, after it ranked fourth in the previous poll of 2011.
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