Eve Teasing Evils

From my childhood I have been brought up in such an environment where women were given much respect, equal opportunities, encouragement for achieving the goal and moreover the importance that makes women feel worthy. The concept of gender discrimination thus never occurred on my mind when I was young. But as I grew older, situation was changing rapidly. I came across people, more specifically girls who were discriminated in their family from the same opportunities that were given to their brothers but not to them. Again, another issue that bothered me was the role of their mother in their family. No importance was given to the decision made by the mothers in those families. The male counterpart was considered the soul of the family. Women were given too little priority to be independent. Gradually, I realized that in many parts of our country women are being treated like this for years. This has followed as a trend by generations. The continuation of such treatment towards women is making the men more dominating and the women more vulnerable and dependent at the same time.

Family is the primary institution for a child where he learns about the social norms, socially accepted behavior, and manners. Moreover the base of the personal characteristics of a child broadly depends on the brought up, values and teachings of the family. Children learn most by observing. So if they observe gender discrimination in the family then that is likely to be learnt by them. Any kind of violence such as the mother being beaten up by father, the sisters being neglected or deprived from the equal opportunities have a negative effect mostly on the male child of the family. The impact can then become destructive for the society as well. Very naturally the male child takes into account the behaviors observed by him. He also starts treating women in the same manner. As a result, he cannot respect any woman. This disrespect takes form of different social crimes. One of these social crimes is 'eve teasing' that is very severe in our country. I believe the root cause of that evil starts from home.