Abuse of Women at Work Place –Psyche Behind Abuse

Abstract

Since ancient time India is a multi cultural patriarchal society where decision making power is given to men in the family. Father is considered as the head of the family, the sole bread earner and entire family depends on him. The power of control, authority, financial decision making, and related to entire family is made by the head of the family. Family brought up of boys and girls entirely differs in patriarchal setup. Boys are considered as assets to the family and girls are considered as the burden in the family. Hence number of restrictions are made for the girls like nutritive food deprivation, health deprivation, educational deprivation, control of movements of girls, lack of freedom, must for girls to learn and do house hold chores. . But boys in the family are pampered, given lot of freedom and economic in dependency. They were provided with nutritive food, each and every demand Of the boys in the family was will be fulfilled in the family as parents think that they take of their parents in old age. Such pampered boys when they get educated and employed, in work set up their psyche will be different and they do not give respect to gender equality. Present paper entitled “Abuse of women at work place –psyche behind abuse “ through light on the types of abuse women under go in work place with special reference to educational institutions and the causes of abuse and strategies to change the scenario.