The Forgotten Women
Monday, 06.18.2007, 08:50am
All women’s groups parrot fabricated statistics of violence against women to justify stringent legal provisions to protect women. It requires a closer look to understand what kind of empowerment they are talking about, and what category of women they see as worthy of protection.It ignores domestic violence committed by wives and girlfriends against male partners, and also the several instances where a daughter-in-law commits domestic violence against her mother-in-law, sister-in-law or any other females related by marriage
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