EMPOWERING WOMEN THROUGH PROPERTY RIGHTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GENDERED PROPERTY REGIMES AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PERPETRATION ACROSS SOUTH ASIA

Abstract

Property rights have evinced to be the leading caster in the economic development of every nation. Limited access, unequal distribution of property rights amongst the dwellers of the society leads to the dawn of the factors ensuing into the rise of violation of other rights of women. More significantly domestic violence has always been a pervasive concern for the administrators across the South Asia. This in turn affects the women’s physical as well as mental wellbeing beyond the transnational borders. Through this research paper the researcher delves the interest of the readers into the potential aspect of the equal distribution of the property rights regardless to the gender discrimination by accomplishing as an extenuating facet in domestic violence perpetration. This research paper traces the paradigms of gender empowerment, economic security, and decision-making powers across the territorial boundaries in South Asian countries and thereby reflecting the vulnerability of subjection of women to violence within their domestic spheres. This research paper will also through the light upon the legal frameworks, customary rules, cultural norms that are playing the significant role in governing the aspects of ownership and inheritance rights of women across the region. The impact of these disparities in the asset distribution amongst the male and female over the economic autonomy and the decision-making powers in the various countries across the South Asia. Last but not the least, this research will be ominously contributing to raise the voice against the domestic violence by highlighting the potential of economic empowerment through the equal distribution of rights and promoting the norms of gender equality as a strategy for indorsing the concerns for the rights of women in South Asia.