Impact of Eve Teasing in the Society of Bangladesh

Impact of eventide rag in the beau monde of Bangladesh By S. khan joy Email emailprotected com Now Eve flirt is nonpareil of the main threats for Bangladesh because it is destroying the social balance. Eve teasing might reckon harmless fun to some, but gets the nerve of the victims. The severe impact of eve teasing is taking away the lives of young lady friends as Bangladesh has witnessed recently.Based on empirical read (2008) the Hunger Project has identified some impacts of eve teasing in the society of rural Bangladesh. These are a) Curtailed education Sexual harassment increases girls drop-out compute from school. Parents concerned about their daughters honour or safety sometimes backing their daughters home and/or marry them off at an early age. b) too soon marriage Girls who are teased or harassed are as well as pushed into marriage, before they are physically or mentally prepared. ) Hindered development Eve teasing contributes to maintaining the low status of wom en. It also hinders women in participating in the formal oeuvre sector. As nearly half of the population of the surface area are women, for the economic development of the country their participation in employment is a must. d) Eve teasing leads to young womans felo-de-se in Bangladesh RVEYING the newspapers over the last few months we must have to be shocked realising the unprecedented rate of suicide cases among the young girls due to eve teasing.As report in the newspapers in the recent past Nurina, Elora, Simi, Trisha, Tonni, Swapna, Tithi, Rumi committed suicide to escape the cruelty of stalkers repression. Over the last four months, as reported in The Daily Star, fourteen girls, due to repression of stalkers, opted for ultimate destiny of their lives determination no other alternatives. Apart from suicide, one statistics has revealed that during January-July 2008 period only, about 13,000 women became victims of eve teasing of different forms across the country.This figur e counted only the reported cases. many an(prenominal) occurrences remain unreported as the majority of the victims of eve teasing choose to ignore this out of fear or not to be disgraced or part of a social gossip. The situation has become so frighten that, in general, it can be argued that at present no girl has been spared from being a victim of eve teasing in one form or another.