Why Women Don’t Complaint Against Violence?-VAW Analysis-by Dev Sharma
By: Dev Sharma
Tags: Violence Against Women, Gender Equality, Workplace Harassment, Women Entrepreneurs, Gender Pay Gap

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Female entrepreneurship is based on women’s participation in equity and employment of a business enterprise (Ruhani J. Alice). Developed countries have witnessed more female entrepreneurship than developing or under-developed countries. The major reasons in these countries over others are more safety at the workplace and society for women. Canada, the USA, Newzealand are one of the top countries for women for favorable conditions of entrepreneurship. The pull factors further generate employment opportunities. However, Uganda, Ghana, and Botswana top the chart in female entrepreneurship for survival needs even in unfavorable conditions. Most low female entrepreneurship is noticed in Asia pacific region like India & Bangladesh and, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Malawi. The higher crime rate inverses the job and education opportunities for women. 35% of all women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence (WHO, 2013). The crime rate against women has drastically increased and become a major reason for lesser women’s employment and productivity. Thus, the violence rate and societal safety have been named as the major impact factor in female participation in the labor market.

Crime Rate ⅟α Female Participation in Labor Market

Access to justice remains problematic in OECD countries, as many victims of violence against women (VAW) fail to report violence. According to data from a survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA, 2014a), only 14% of women EU-wide who report having been the victim of at least one serious incident of violence by a partner since the age of 15 say that they contacted the police about the most serious such incident (FRA, 2014a). The study reveals that fewer women tend to complain about workplace harassment and related crimes. Such crimes must be addressed centrally. The financial institutions/ Banks must provide a rebate to such minorities’ class of gender including transgender that have been suffered from such workplace harassment. Female migration is an inducement to opportunity & crime. Women outnumbered men in OECD countries than in developing countries in migration. Most of the female migrants are from south-east Asia that moves to the Middle East country as their favorite destination and easy employment opportunities without language barriers. However, a ‘Kefala system’ in Saudi Arabia gives the immense right to the employer on the workers on their decision of changing employment or leaving the country. It has substantially increased the violence rate against women especially after Siti Zaeneb and Karni were beheaded in April 2015. The woman from eastern European countries like Moldova, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, and Albania are enticed to provide job opportunities in the gulf under government schemes. Consequently, they are trapped in sex trafficking and prostitution (Amnesty International). The lack of following the best practices by corporate, enterprises, and firms bypasses the legal system. This is due to the formulation and uncontrollable mechanism without providing any incentives to such corporate and firms. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy shall be incentivized to provide social benefits to female employees. Such CSR may cover the incentives schemes to female and transgender employees enabling tax benefits to the corporate. Similar laws may give social protection to housewives. The alike UK, many other developing countries have their in-house statutes of equality and equal treatment on gender pay and female participation. However, what lacks is the formulation and control methodology of such policies. Stringency can’t be expected unless we drive forces to initiate the problem of the gender pay gap under the umbrella of gender equality for fundamental rights irrespective of their nationalities and gender. A centralized mechanism is required then the national statutes that not only bring the uniformity of such inter-state laws but also harmonize to the apex policy.

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