JOURNAL 3 - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

We encounter violence based news such as killed, raped or trounced women every single day. Something must be done in order to stop it but I just can write about my thoughts and feelings about this pitilessness for the moment.

Violence against women is a gender apartheid based abuse of human rights. According to the report of Human Rights Association, four thousand women were killed and three thousand women were abused sexually in seven years. Any act of gender-based violence that results in mental, physical, sexual, and other health problems. People should stop this cruel reality of the world. There are three main possible solutions for the dramatic rising in acts of gender-based violence.

First of all, not only women but also men should be informed of the gender-based violence and its miserable results. It is obvious that a conscious man knows that he should not mistreat women and a conscious woman knows that she has rights to defend herself to a man.

Secondly, more women’s shelter should be opened and they should be secure and faithful. Women can get legal, psychological and healthcare services there. They should understand that they can live without their cruel husbands or fathers. They should know that they can count on these shelters.  

Finally, the social perspective to the women should be changed and the belief that women are weak and unimportant in our society should be eliminated. Women should be supported to be in the society actively such as working and even taking more places in politics and decision makers. Women should be supported and they should get paid jobs in order to get their economic freedom and stop depending on men. There are still weird beliefs such as a woman should not be an engineer or any man’s job(!). In one of my courses during a debate on this, I saw that those prejudices are still valid even for the educated people. It is terrible that even at METU, there are some guys thinking that women cannot be engineers.

In conclusion, when these possible solutions are practiced, violence against women can be minimized or even stopped.