Crime against Women: Women vulnerability index and female labour force participation

Abstract

The paper aims to examine women vulnerability across 29 different states and 7 union Territories from period 2001-2014 in India. A Women Vulnerability Index (WVI) is formed by using Principal component analysis (PCA) based on different factors i.e. Rape, Cruelty by husband , Insult to Modesty, Dowry Deaths, Kidnapping and Abduction and relatives, Assault with an intent to outrage modesty, Immoral Trafficking and Dowry cases.