Date of Publication :15th October 2020

Abstract: In today’s world, women safety has become a major issue as they can’t step out of their house at any given time due to physical/sexual abuse and a fear of violence. Atrocities towards (and against) women are forms of oppression hindering the development of women and thereby resulting in gender injustice, this being ideologically supported by a value system, which is androcentric and gender insensitive. Deepening inequalities and struggles by the oppressed section to assert their rights (granted under democracy) have unleashed retaliations by the more privileged and, women situated as they are in the social matrix as non-free, dependent subjectivities, become specially affected ones. Even in the 21st century where the technology is rapidly growing and new gadgets were developed but still women’s and girls are facing problems. Even today in India, women can’t move at night in secluded places and even at day time crowded places hundreds and thousands of incidents of physical/sexual abuse happening to every day women in this country. Among other crimes, rape is the fastest growing crime in the country today.

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