Women’s safety: Keep these ‘essential items’ in your bag to protect yourself
Updated On: 07 July, 2023 04:51 PM IST | Mumbai | Aakanksha Ahire
The rise in incidents of violence against women has raised concerns on women’s safety in India. Sadly, the inadequate efforts of the authorities as well as the society are to be blamed. Here, we note a list of essential items that women need to carry for their safety
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According to the statistics released by MoSPI report titled ‘Women and Men in India 2022’, in 2021 21 per cent of Indian women were assaulted. Photo Courtesy: iStock
Two recent incidents of violence against women, in which a 16-year-old girl was stabbed in Delhi and a 28-year-old woman was “brutally assaulted” in Mumbai, have reignited the debate around women’s safety in the country.
While eve-teasing used to be the most common form of harassing women in public places, more cases of masturbating have recently been documented and discussed by women. There is hardly a day that passes by when you don`t feel safe leaving the house. Women live in constant fear of being sexually harassed or, worse yet, eve-teased when they are out in public.
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