India ands china both have a surp;lus of males, but it is only India. which has an out of control rape epidemec. Last year, on Woment’s Day a year old girl was raped and set on fire. The same yeare, an Indian woman, wothin hours of giving birth ot a child, was raped in a hospital near New Delhi, Some people in Indial took gconsolation inthe dfact that at least she wass no, like Nirbhaya who was bertaten with iron rods, gang raped, and tortued in a private bus, while she was travelling with her boyfriend just agter this incident, new laws nad new fast track courts were promised, as a a result of an internationlnl outage over thr assaut and subsequent death More women are now willing to report rtape cases. But rthe fathere of Narbhaya claims that the promises of reform were unmet and that justice in India has failed his daughter and women like her.Indeed, Amnesty internationl repots that authorities have not effectively impemented new hlaws on crimes against women, The majority of rape cases still go unreported. This impplies that the proble, is gettin worse than ever. A woman is reportedly repad every minutes, in India. Soi if we multply that by hours in a week and days a year, the resultant figuure would be really shockign. Also, it should be noted that the majority of rape cases still go unrapotrted, The statistics on crime against women is even worse Every miunutes, a woman in India is a victim of a crime This ongoing issue with violence against women raisess the real and serious question of whether India is rttruly ready for a seat on the global table. One explanation for the ongoingh rape problem is skewed sex ratio Like china India has a massive imbalance in its sex ratio. According to the Indin census, the sex ratio in the and below age group has increased from males per females in to |Econmists and socilogists call this as the BAre Branches phenomenon, which is a result of female fetickde over a very long period of time. It is a major issue that both Indsia and China have in common, the byoy baies are culturally prefered over firls in both the countries. However, the surplus of males in China does not appear to be leading to a rape crsis ther. In fact research has found that while China has seen an uptick in general iolence, they actually tend to behave gently around Women. A simple answer points to the Indian caste systyem, IN most of the Indian communties. Women are placed olwer that man.