There are many reasons in the
society for violence towards women. In our social system,
women are treated always as inexpert
person to do various jobs. The violence against
women is increasing gradually
because of various social outlooks like deprivation of
women from different social and
religious rituals, child marriage, polygamy, being
interested to have a son due to the
repeated birth of daughters, etc.
The vulnerable economic
condition of our country also encourages establishing the
custom of dowry. Gradually dowry
becomes a tool for torture. Besides, depriving a
woman from education, torturing
by fatwa, etc. are some other social curses that become
the important causes of violence
towards women.
In our society, still many men
consider women weak
and feeble. In both the rural
and urban societies, the
attitude of several men in
different families is that
women’s only occupation will be
to serve the
household chores, i.e. she will
cook, look-after the
children, make kitchen garden,
rear the cattle, teach
the children, nurse the sick,
etc. The domination and
stubborn attitude of man in this
country, for example, male is superior to female, women
are servant of their husband,
etc. creates violence towards women. Again, getting lessons
from their childhood experience
about the deprivation of women may make a man
violent towards women. The
negligence of parents towards daughter, giving preference
to the male child, ignoring the
desires of their daughter in marriage, etc. are some of the
attitudes towards women that
proceed violence towards women one step ahead.
One important reason for
violence towards women is poverty. To eradicate poverty,
many women come out from their
house to search jobs and get victims of violence. A
huge member of female workers of
Bangladesh work in garments sector. All of them
are the victims of poverty. The
problems like shortage of housing facilities or returning
late from their work place are
the reasons for becoming the victims of sexual
harassment. Many small girls and
women work as domestic servants in houses because
of poverty. Most of these female
domestic servants become the victims of torture.
In most cases, the female folks
of Bangladesh cannot express about the torture or raise
their voice against such torture
because of the fear of losing family or social status. So,
incidences of violence towards
women and children are increasing in abundance. But to
speak in favour of women and
children, different activities have been administrated by
the Ministry of Education, the
Ministry for Women and Children Affairs, various NGOs,
etc. For example, Ain O Shalish
Kendra, Breaking the Silence. etc. have taken various
activities to voice for the
victims.
The Impact
of Violence towards Women
The impact of violence towards
women’s life is terrible
and complex. Sometimes physical
torture to woman
results the loss of bodily
organ. Such violence add injuries
to the physical and mental
health of woman. In many
cases, women go to the extreme
to commit suicide.
Female victims of violence can
not lead a normal life. The
violence towards women also
impacts on the economy of
our country.
