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Title: Women’s Safety
Subtitle: Problems faced by women on daily basis
Authors: Ashtadha Borkar, Sayi Kirtikar, Shweta Sharma
Introduction: Women’s safety means a safer, healthier community for everyone. This is a participatory process focused on changing community norms, patterns of social interaction, values, customs and institutions in ways that will significantly improve the quality of life in a community for all of its members. This is a natural by-product of efforts that attempt to address issues such as family dynamics, relationships, poverty, racism and/or ending sexual violence. Building a healthy, safe community is everyone’s job.
Objective:
To understand underlying phenomenon of the problems faced by women on daily basis
Literature review:
a) Women’s Lived Experiences with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): How TANF Can Better Support Women’s Wellbeing and Reduce Intimate Partner Violence
Using an adapted Family Stress Model framework and analyzing data through an intersectional and community-based lens, we explore the impact of TANF on women’s wellbeing through in-depth, semi-structured interviews during the COVID-19 pandemic with 13 women who had TANF experience in three U. Increasing TANF cash benefits and other cash transfers for those experiencing poverty, adopting solely state funded TANF programs, increasing funding for TANF administration, addressing TANF stigma and racialized narratives, and allowing optional child support participation or a larger «pass-through» of child support are important steps toward making TANF more protective against IPV.
b) The Shadow Pandemic in India: ‘Staying Home’ and The Safety of Women During Lockdown
The unprecedented health crisis caused by COVID-19 has taken the world by storm. The only way deemed plausible to tackle the crisis in most countries was a policy of restricting mobility and of staying home. However, there are varied views on the merit of such a lockdown. In India the enforcement of ‘staying home’ also needs to be considered in light of the fact that about one-third of the households in the country have to accommodate 3-4 persons per room defying the requirement of social distancing. The situation of women during lockdown is particularly difficult, as their workload has increased, as has their exposure to violence and a denial of vital outside sources of support. The ‘staying home’ rule involves a myriad of issues differing according to the respective social environment. Middle-class women tend to be left with the additional burden of taking care of family members and home-schooling children without the support of helpers who have been released during lockdown. Women working in the informal sector are likely to be hit by a loss of their jobs, and as spouses of often equally jobless informal sector workers ‘add to the burden’ on the financial situation. Addressing the needs of women in times of lockdown is important as gender budgeting is widely known to impact positively on development planning.
Data collection: The data was collected by surveying 100 students with the help of Google Forms on basis of Likert scale from SNDT college students and surrounded college students. The method used for surveying was questionnaire method to understand the point of view.
Following were the questions used for surveying:
1) I faced Racism?
2) I am doubted for my caliber at my work place?
3) I am considered as omen /unlucky?
4) I face serval restrictions during menstrual cycle?
5) I am pressurized to get married?
6) I am judged by clothes?
7) I faced gender inequality
Data analysis:
mean -0.20 0.15 -0.39 0.12 0.17 0.04 0.23
Sd 1.11 1.00 1.14 1.07 0.93 1.08 0.95
Se 0.111 0.100 0.114 0.107 0.093 0.108 0.095
z value -1.81 1.57 -3.44 1.13 1.86 0.46 2.45
As, the z value is -1.81 which is between 1.96 and -1.96 women are neutral towards facing racism
As, the z value is 1.57 which is less than 1.96 women are not doubted for their caliber at work place
As, the z value is -3.44 which is more than 1.96 women are considered as omen /unlucky
As, the z value is 1.13 which is between 1.96 and -1.96 women are neutral towards facing several restrictions during menstrual cycle
As, the z value is 1.86 which is less than 1.96 women are not pressurized to get married
As, the z value is 0.46 which is between -1.96 and 1.96 women are neutral towards judged by clothes
As, the z value is 2.45 which is more than 1.96 women has faced gender inequality
Conclusion:
1) Women are neutral towards facing racism
2) Women are not doubted for their caliber at work place
3) Women are considered as omen /unlucky
4) Women are neutral towards facing several restrictions during menstrual cycle
5) Women are not pressurized to get married
6) Women are neutral towards judged by clothes
7) Women has faced gender inequality
Reference:
Acharya, S. S., Mukherjee, M., & Dutta, C. (2020). The shadow pandemic in india: ‘staying home’ and the safety of women during lockdown. Gender Forum, (76), 46-61,65-66. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/shadow-pandemic-india-staying-home-safety-women/docview/2454694408/se-2
Spencer, R. A., Lemon, E. D., Komro, K. A., Livingston, M. D., & Woods-Jaeger, B. (2022). Women’s lived experiences with temporary assistance for needy families (TANF): How TANF can better support Women’s wellbeing and reduce intimate partner violence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(3), 1170. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031170
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