Crime against the women in India & female literacy rate

During the last two decades violence against women has emerged as the most burning issue throughout the world. Women are targets to extreme forms of violence such as incest, rape, dowry deaths; trafficking etc. One of the wicked incidents was the gang rape of 23-year-old medical student in Delhi. Violence against women is any act of gender-based violence which result in, physical, sexual harassment, trafficking, sexual abuse in the workplace, rape, psychological and sexual abuse by intimate male partners and relatives, forced pregnancies, sexual abuse in the workplace, abuse of widows including property grabbing, allegation of witchcraft, physical and psychological violence by younger family members, differential access to food and medical care.