dress codes in Indian Universities.
Some Indian Universities want to institute dress codes but only for women.
"Anna University is the only higher-education institution in India with a strict dress code, but the idea has gained supporters across the nation."
Last June the dean of University of Delhi's Kirori Mal College blamed "revealing dresses" for inciting the off-campus gang rape of a student from northeastern India. He said northeastern students — perceived by some as more Westernized than students from other parts of India — should wear salwar kameez to prevent rapes.
In February, Farah Aziz Khanum, a graduate student at Aligarh Muslim University, told reporters she was receiving death and rape threats from other students at the university because she wears T-shirts and jeans on the campus. . . . She complained to the vice chancellor, who, she says, did not initially take any action and asked her not to tell anyone about the threats. . . . When Ms. Khanum decided to make her case public, she says a member of the student union threatened her with rape.
Malik Fazle Rab, vice president of the group, flatly denies that. "No member of our union has threatened or harassed Ms. Khanum," he says. "If we talk amongst ourselves or give advice on any issue, that is not harassment."
Aligarh Muslim University doesn't even have a dress code--apparently this is just harassment by conservative students. And yet the vice-chancellor delayed an investigation?
All quite sickening...the assumptions being that if you dress traditionally you will not be raped? Or the idea that if you dress in western clothes, you are asking to be raped? Quite sad that universities are having this out dated discussion, where women's freedoms are being seriously challenged. It would be more useful, if men were sent to classes on how to behave appropriately around women. What behaviors, words and actions are considered unacceptable. Rape is about power and controlling women it does not have much to do with dress.
"Anna University is the only higher-education institution in India with a strict dress code, but the idea has gained supporters across the nation."
Last June the dean of University of Delhi's Kirori Mal College blamed "revealing dresses" for inciting the off-campus gang rape of a student from northeastern India. He said northeastern students — perceived by some as more Westernized than students from other parts of India — should wear salwar kameez to prevent rapes.
In February, Farah Aziz Khanum, a graduate student at Aligarh Muslim University, told reporters she was receiving death and rape threats from other students at the university because she wears T-shirts and jeans on the campus. . . . She complained to the vice chancellor, who, she says, did not initially take any action and asked her not to tell anyone about the threats. . . . When Ms. Khanum decided to make her case public, she says a member of the student union threatened her with rape.
Malik Fazle Rab, vice president of the group, flatly denies that. "No member of our union has threatened or harassed Ms. Khanum," he says. "If we talk amongst ourselves or give advice on any issue, that is not harassment."
Aligarh Muslim University doesn't even have a dress code--apparently this is just harassment by conservative students. And yet the vice-chancellor delayed an investigation?
All quite sickening...the assumptions being that if you dress traditionally you will not be raped? Or the idea that if you dress in western clothes, you are asking to be raped? Quite sad that universities are having this out dated discussion, where women's freedoms are being seriously challenged. It would be more useful, if men were sent to classes on how to behave appropriately around women. What behaviors, words and actions are considered unacceptable. Rape is about power and controlling women it does not have much to do with dress.
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