Response of Women Police towards Domestic Violence: A Case Study of Islamabad

Abstract

Although it is un-exceptionally true that no country or any part of society is fme from violence but to minimize these standards, society develop different institutions. The violence against women, especially, the domestic violence is persisting in every society from the olden times, when human groups started to specify work on the basis of gender. Nowaday, Millions of women suffer domestic violence all around the world and this situation is not only prevailed in developing countries but even in developed countlies like United States and the United Kingdom, the number of women suffering from violence is exceedingly high. Violence against women is a global issue, historically; it goes back to the stone ages and archaeological findings tell us that at early stages the division of labour was on the bases of sex, where women were gatherers while the men possessed the hunting duties. It is commonly perceived that being violent is the nature of manhood. The physical weaknes~ : of the women, their chi ldbearing function, the weakness during their menstruation cycle, and their economic dependence (which is socially constructed not biological) combined to a~s ign men their protectors and providers in daily life. This all r.esult into the superior status of men over the women and support the enviromnent of violence against the women. Lewis (21)0 I) argues that human females are less physically violent than male counterpatts, but women have their own ways of perpetuating violence. Like through the stages of evolution, females bear the major burden of raising the young. How women treat them during the earliest years of their lives strongly influences the structure and functioning of their brains, the security of their attachments, and the quality of their ~motions, thoughts, and behaviours-in other words, whether or not they become violent. 1 In the third world countries like Pakistan, the mother often has not control over the environment due to certain deep-rooted cultural reasons. Different factors like dominance by males in every stage of their lives, unaware to their social rights, illiteracy and poverty make it impossible for mothers from growing up less violent individuals. But as the technological