Role of media in gender sensitization
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Even after 67 years of Independence, domestic violence is still commonplace, depriving the girl child of education is the norm and the sex ratio in India still stands at 940 women per 1,000 male, according to Census 2011. While this figure has marginally increased from 933, as it stood in 2001, it is still nothing to be proud of, especially when political leaders continuously talk about “empowering women” and governments roll out new schemes for the benefit of girl child and women.
With a skewed sex ratio, it makes it all the more imperative to focus on gender sensitisation and create awareness about women issues, especially at a time when the crime rate seems to be spiralling.
According to figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau, the number of rape cases reported in India went up from 24,923 in 2012 to 33,707 in 2013. While incidents of rape, molestation, eve-teasing sure have spiked, so has media coverage about such incidents ever since the December 16 gang rape. This, in turn, helped create a lot of awareness about the frequency of such crimes, and gave quite a few women the courage to report about the same. So much so that the number of First Information Reports (FIRs) filed across the country, particularly in New Delhi, increased noticeably. Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi recently said that crime hasn’t risen as sharply in the last couple of years as the number of FIRs being filed has.
Women too have shown great strength in the last couple of years when they have used some platform or the other to come out of their adverse condition and share what they have been through. Social media, especially, has played a momentous role in this. Instead of being just a tool for socialising and entertainment, the new media has become active in raising debates and engaging netizens in discussions.
With a skewed sex ratio, it makes it all the more imperative to focus on gender sensitisation and create awareness about women issues, especially at a time when the crime rate seems to be spiralling.
According to figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau, the number of rape cases reported in India went up from 24,923 in 2012 to 33,707 in 2013. While incidents of rape, molestation, eve-teasing sure have spiked, so has media coverage about such incidents ever since the December 16 gang rape. This, in turn, helped create a lot of awareness about the frequency of such crimes, and gave quite a few women the courage to report about the same. So much so that the number of First Information Reports (FIRs) filed across the country, particularly in New Delhi, increased noticeably. Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi recently said that crime hasn’t risen as sharply in the last couple of years as the number of FIRs being filed has.
Women too have shown great strength in the last couple of years when they have used some platform or the other to come out of their adverse condition and share what they have been through. Social media, especially, has played a momentous role in this. Instead of being just a tool for socialising and entertainment, the new media has become active in raising debates and engaging netizens in discussions.
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