Eve teasing is a typical social crime. In recent time, the preoccupied buzz word of the society is 'Eve teasing'. The term 'Eve teasing' refers to sexual harassment on women in short sense. In larger sense, this term means all kinds of harassment done to female community.
The problem of Eve teasing received public and media attention in far 1960s. But in the following decades, it grew to an alarming state in the subcontinent.
The victims of Eve teasing are basically the school and college going girl students and university and even the female service holders. As more and more women gradually started going out to colleges and work independently, the rate of oppression and psychological torture is getting higher.
Many believe that it is the clothing of women that elicits such heinous behavious, but the sad truth is that even conservatively dressed muslim women who wear a burqa over their clothes leaving only the eyes and feet visible are subjected to it.
There are many reasonable causes behind Eve teasing. The notable termed causes are the deterioration of social, cultural, familial and moral values. In a male dominated society, the lack of respect for women folk, the tendency to use them as the object of consummation are the prefactors that result in Eve teasing. Women are not free from guilt. Their use of indecent dress, reckless roaming in every place in inhibited time make them victimized.
Government as well as law enforcing agencies can come forward to eradicate Eve teasing. The practice of decent culture, moral values, to arrange employment scope to the unemployed can also remove Eve teasing from society. The families who have young boys and girls can play an effective role in this case.
To make a disciplined and secure society, we all should attempt to resist this bad practice. The government should take proper step to remove it.
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