Cultural POWER DYNAMICS AT FAULT, SAY People
In India, many women believe that physical violence is more than just a law-and-order matter. They attribute this to a culture that tolerates sexism and society’s greatly male-dominated power dynamics.
” There are cases of people bullying people, taunting them- a lot of things, like little acts of aggression- that’s how it starts. And we have seen then how it can finish”, said Mala, a Delhi citizen.
Another Delhi citizen, Vaishnavi Sharma, believes home history plays a vital role in building a man’s personality.
” It decides whether they make women feel safe around themselves, whether they honor ladies or not”, she added.
According to protesters, Dalits, members of the country’s lower class, who were once hailed as “untouchable,” are the most underrepresented. But stuff change when the sufferer is an industrial, well-educated, so-called “upper class” professional.
” There is that careful rage, and the problem is that unless we change that larger patriarchal, caste-ist perspective, this is not going to get away”, said Neetika Vishwanath, director of punishment at Project 39A – a dispute and research center that represents death row inmates in India.
Because India’s health industry is unionized, officials in the Kolkata event immediately responded to calls for a hit.