Radha Sankaranarayanan, the wife of Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan, today stressed the need to "sensitise" the entire official machinery, from the police stations to the courts, for quick justice to women.
If all-women police stations are set up, it would give women the confidence to come forward and report crimes against them, she said, speaking at a seminar on Women's Day here.
The seminar, 'Time for action to end violence against women', was organised by the United Nations Population Fund in association with the Department of Public Health, Government of Maharashtra.
"As a woman, as a mother and as a grandmother, I feel sad, angry and at the same time helpless when I read reports of incidents of violence against women, sexual assault on small girls and even on toddlers. In some cases the trauma of the victim ends with death. I feel benumbed," she said.
Most horrifying forms of violence against women are taking place in society, she said while calling for a change in attitudes.
Women are silent victims of under-development and calamities like drought, she said, adding that more than men, it is women who have to bear the brunt of drought and water scarcity.
