Volume-X, Issue-VI, November 2024 |
Unmasking the Reality: Confronting Harassment of Women Ujjal Kumar Singha, Research Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India |
Received: 22.11.2024 | Accepted: 28.11.2024 | Published Online: 30.11.2024 | Page No: 194-201 | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.10.issue.06W.020 | |||||||
ABSTRACT | ||
This article focuses on the widespread phenomenon of harassment in various aspects of women’s lives: at work, outdoors, and online. This paper presents various forms of harassment from verbal abuse, physical actions like giving the stiff arm, staring down and head turning, to cyber bullying and their effects on psychological and social well being of victims. There can scarcely be any subject that elicits as much interest as the problems of women, among researchers in social sciences, government, planning groups, social workers and reformers. This is a field of study, or in other words the study of women’s problems cuts across gerontology, psychiatry and even criminology. But one issue which directly concerns women and which has been neglected and avoided most conveniently is the issue on crime against women. That’s why This article also explores the cultural, legal, and systematic factors that contribute to harassment and how it requires a reform and change on different spheres and levels. The case studies and current statistics used in the piece advocate for the enhancement of the legal authority and actions, the public health campaigns to raise awareness, and people’s joint effort to promote the environment that would be safer and less invasive for women. Keywords: Harassment, Violence Against Women, Gender Equality, Cultural Norms, Verbal Harassment, Physical Harassment, Sexual Harassment, Cyber Harassment, Institutional Harassment. |