Tamil Nadu boasts some of the best indicators in India when it comes to women. The southern state’s female literacy rate is 73.9 percent, well above the national average of 65.5 percent, according to the 2011 census. It has also one of the narrowest gender gaps in India, having 995 women for every 1,000 men. Another statistic that bodes well for Tamil Nadu's women, although it may not seem so upon first glance: Tamil Nadu logged 3,983 cases of domestic violence in 2011 – or 42 percent of all the cases reported in India, by far the highest of any state. Policy researchers and lawyers in Tamil Nadu say this figure indicates that women feel more comfortable reporting these incidents,...
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