“…According to Ellsberg et al, (2015); Alesina, Brioschi, and Ferrara (2016); Varghese and Sarkute (2017), the violence against women encompasses wide range of views, which are not limited to physical, psychological, sexual violence occurring in the family, but it also includes sexual abuse, battering of young females, martial rape, dowry-related violence, genital mutilation and other harmful acts. It also includes sexual harassment, rape, and intimation at the workplace, trafficking, discrimination, which is at a community or state level.…”