India - the Worst Place in the world to be a Woman?

[malaise]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20863860
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When the unidentified woman died in a Singapore hospital early on Saturday, the victim of a savage rape on a moving bus in the capital, Delhi, it was time again, many said, to ask: why does India treat its women so badly?

Female foetuses are aborted and baby girls killed after birth, leading to an an appallingly skewed sex ratio. Many of those who survive face discrimination, prejudice, violence and neglect all their lives, as single or married women.

TrustLaw, a news service run by Thomson Reuters, has ranked India as the worst country in which to be a woman. This in the country where the leader of the ruling party, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, at least three chief ministers, and a number of sports and business icons are women. It is also a country where a generation of newly empowered young women are going out to work in larger numbers than ever before.

With more than 24,000 reported cases in 2011, rape registered a 9.2% rise over the previous year. More than half (54.7%) of the victims were aged between 18 and 30. Most disturbingly, according to police records, the offenders were known to their victims in more than 94% of the cases. Neighbours accounted for a third of the offenders, while parents and other relatives were also involved. Delhi accounted for over 17% of the total number of rape cases in the country.

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Good read

[ck4829]

1. The women mentioned specifically were practically born into their roles

Either the children of politicians themselves or on the highest caste levels. From what I read, the speaker of the lower house and two female chief ministers I could find were these.

There are two countries named India that occupy the same geographical location, one where you will enjoy the progress, advancement, and the wealth of the nation, and the other where you are a faceless nobody who lives at the mercy of the higher castes and now these gangs.

[exboyfil]

2. My vote would be some theocratic

Muslim hellhole (take your pick), but India is bad as well. I don't know the internal dynamics of what goes on in Indian families in this country, but generally the famiies seem to be caring for their daughters (these are daughters who go to school with my daughters). My daughters self select friends who are high achieving, and that characterize all their first generation born in the U.S. girls that are their friends. Their friends with Muslim parents seem more restrictive and more insular (not that they are bad neighbors, and, I still think care about their kids). These are observations and not stereotypes but my observations.

[zellie]

4. No fooling.

I shudder at the thought.

[samsingh]

3. i would pick another country in the middle east