Is India a good place for women ?

Essay by ICristianoHigh School, 10th grade June 2014

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India was ranked the worst G20 country to be living in if you were a female. Rapes, dowry deaths and foetal infanticide are not uncommen, and many men do not see the issues involving harm to women as a bad thing.

However India does not have it's appealing side, certain changes are beginning to take place to ensure that India is safer for women. This is being done by enforcing laws, a raise in women in government, and women in general are beginning to stand up for themselves.

In Delhi, late in December 2012, a 23-year old woman was brutally raped and beaten on a bus by a gang of six men. Her naked body was then thrown from the moving vehicle. As shocking as it may seem, and although this is a case of extremity in India, these types of treatment towards women are not infrequent.

In 2011, there were 24000 cases of rape - that's roughly one rape per 22 minutes.

Furthermore in 2010, there were 8233 recorded dowry deaths, however it is probable there are many more that were not reported. Women die in dowry deaths when their families become unable to pay the growing demands of the grooms parents.

Poorer Indian families will kill their baby girls at birth or in the womb to avoid paying for dowry's once they reach the age to be married off - average 13 - 19 years of age. Though, there are some families whom kill the infant girls as male babies are the preferred gender to have at birth, and giving birth to a girl can be seen as an embarrassment to the family.

None of these crimes were ever taken seriously or properly enforced, until recently.

In the more recent years, India's way of life for females is...