Topic: Social empowerment
1. Addressing gender-based violence and challenging entrenched patriarchal norms in India indeed requires an efficient state intervention. Examine. (250 words)
Difficulty level: Moderate
Reference: Live Mint , Insights on India
Why the question:
United Nations data over the past decade has maintained that as many as one in three women globally have experienced physical and/or sexual violence. Indian women too reel from exposure to risks of gender-based violence (GBV), exacerbated by an entrenched patriarchy and limited state capacity to intervene.
Key Demand of the question:
To write about the reasons for unabated gender-based violence and steps that are needed to tackle this chronic problem.
Directive word:
Examine – When asked to ‘Examine’, we must investigate the topic (content words) in detail, inspect it, investigate it and establish the key facts and issues related to the topic in question. While doing so we should explain why these facts and issues are important and their implications.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Begin by giving context and mention the NCRB data on increasing cases of gender-based violence.
Body:
In the first part, mention the reasons for this chronic issue. Legal loopholes, social conditioning, culture of violence, Caste dynamics etc.
Write the steps that are the need of the hour and role of state intervention – Effective implementation of Laws, investigating agency and prosecution more proficient, awareness, gender sensitisation etc..
Conclusion:
Conclude with a way forward.
