Posted by: metta January 10, 2015
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As you rightly pointed out, male:female ratio could't be the main reason. Kathmandu is not a great place for women either, but I don't think it's as bad as in India. We've recently read more cases of female harassment in Kathmandu public transport.
IMO, main reasons could be
- public denial that the problem exists. Have you seen how many Indians come defending whenever there's bad news reports from India?
- Religious fanaticism. Religion shouldn't be the center of our society, at least power houses shouldn't involve religion. In our country, with the presence of communists at one extreme denying religions and at the other extreme, corrupted Kamal Thapa gangs, I'm afraid where our society is heading.
- Always blaming the victim, especially if it's a women or from the minority group.
- Public impunity. Violence against women are not taken seriously and police discouraging or refusing to register these crimes. Forget about the punishment.
- Men are always right.
- Harassing women is publicly acceptable. For example, I showed in other threads how some people in Nepali society think it is ok to discriminate dalits.
- Bad political influence. Did you read last week news of Home Minister and his PA misusing their power by keeping lovebirds (married couple) behind bars?