84 % women in J&K prefer to stay mum on domestic violence

Jammu: At a time when so much is being made about women empowerment and initiatives to make them feel secure in their and surroundings- a dismal 84 per cent women in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir has never sought help or told anyone about the violence experienced by them, the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) found, clearing indicating that all such efforts especially here have yielded a little to bring them out of the Patriarchal System. While only 7 per cent women sought help to escape from physical violence in J&K.
According to NFHS-5, the proportion of such women was over 80 per cent in four states and one union territory -- Assam (81.2 per cent), Bihar (81.8 per cent), Manipur (83.9 per cent), Sikkim (80.1 per cent), and Jammu and Kashmir (83.9 per cent).
As per NFHS survey overall over 70 per cent women in 11 states and one union territory never sought help or told anyone about the violence experienced by them. Tripura (76 per cent), Telangana (71 per cent), West Bengal (76.3 per cent), Maharashtra (76.4 per cent), Goa (75.7 per cent), Gujarat (70.6 per cent) and Andhra Pradesh (79.7 per cent) are the other states where more than 70 per cent women never sought help or told anyone about the violence experienced by them.
Less than 10 per cent women sought help to escape from physical violence in eight states -- Assam (6.6 per cent), Andhra Pradesh (7.7 per cent), Bihar (8.9 per cent), Goa (9.6 per cent), Himachal Pradesh (9.6 per cent), Jammu and Kashmir (7.1 per cent), Manipur (1.2 per cent), and Nagaland (4.8 per cent). The sources of help for those who sought it included their own family, husband's family, neighbour, police, lawyer and religious leader.
The types of spousal violence experienced by the women were cuts, bruises, aches, eye injuries, broken bones, severe burns, broken teeth, sprains and dislocations among others.

Updated On 11/29/2021 10:57:50 AM