Bloomberg, Andrew MacAskill - Feb 28, 2013
India's government said it will create the country's first bank exclusively for women, and set up a fund to boost female empowerment in honor of the victim of a brutal gang rape that reverberated around the world.
Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram announced the state-owned bank will be provided with 10 billion rupees (185 million) in initial capital and will mostly lend to women-run businesses and self-help groups. He said he plans to get a license for the lender by October. The proposed Nirbhaya Fund will also be given 10 billion rupees, with the Ministry of Women and Child Development given charge of assessing priorities.
"Recent incidents have cast a long, dark shadow on our liberal and progressive credentials," Chidambaram said in his budget speech today. "We have a collective responsibility to ensure the dignity and safety of women."
The murder and gang rape of a medical student on a moving bus in December shocked India, drawing attention to the scale of sexual violence in the world's largest democracy. India was named the fourth worst place in the world to be a woman after Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan in a 2011 survey by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.The survey cited female feticide, human trafficking, sexual violence and poor education for India's low score in the global rankings.
MISSING WOMEN
Two of the most powerful women in Indian politics -- president of the ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, and Sushma Swaraj, the leader in the lower house of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party -- banged their desks in praise after the program was announced.
Women make up just 24 percent of India's workforce of 478 million people, according to a report last year called "India's Economy: The Other Half" by the Center for Strategic and International Studies based in Washington. Among senior-level employees, women account for 5 percent, compared with a global average of 20 percent, the report said.
As more women enter public spaces for work or education they are facing increased violence, Chidambaram said. As a result he announced more money to be spent on improving their safety. Nirbhaya -- which means fearless in Hindi -- a pseudonym for the unidentified Delhi gang rape victim used by Indian media.
The gang rape set off a charged debate in a country where a woman was raped every 22 minutes in 2011, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. There were 572 cases of rape reported in New Delhi that year, a 23 percent increase from 2008. The rise may reflect a greater confidence in reporting assaults.
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The nature of the research sort these results want be interpreted with great vigilance, as the authors explained - this includes the fact the scores were self-report and like this may be knobby by attempts at impression management; and that the results are purely cross-sectional, so possibly practicing as a supervisor increases manual psychopathic personality traits, reasonably than people with such traits being attracted to consumption. It's plus a shame that the must to keep the survey not up to scratch assumed that bonus provision of personality were not recorded. This sort we can't grant whether the results are fixed to psychopathic traits, or whether they might be exclusive tightfistedly explained in lexis of, say, (lack of) kindness - one of the Big Five personality traits.
Though, this study represents one of the first attempts to announce psychopathic traits in the in style group and it raises visit enthralling questions for approaching trial. The authors imaginary their upshot are "set with the inference [that] at least possible some psychopathic traits... are associated to adaptive attributes in dull life, in the company of leadership positions, consumption positions, and high-risk occupations."
"Lilienfeld, S., Latzman, R., Watts, A., Smith, S., ">Frontiers in Psychology, 5 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00740
Mission in black and white by Christian Jarrett (@psych writer) for the BPS Research Incorporate.
