The lack of the enforcement of laws, the extreme ignorance of the government and many other such factors combine together to give a rise to sexual violence.
It is high time that a multi pronged approach be adopted to tackle the menace. We will make no progress till we keep considering it a law and order problem and using it to browbeat every such incident as the personal failure of the prime minister.
Here’s an article that talks about a new movement taking shape against India’s patriarchal, conservative society and defining the way we have been defining sexual harassment.