Family and Child Welfare

Family and Child Welfare 3 (3+0)

Lesson 37 : Women Trafficking

Causes of Woman Trafficking

Trafficking of women is today an important social problem, various causes are responsible for this. The root causes include extreme disparities of wealth, continuing and pervasive inequality due to class, caste and most importantly gender biases throughout the region, erosion of traditional family system and values, iniquitous social conventions, lack of transparency in regulations governing labour migration, enormous profits ensured by trafficking business to the traffickers.
These causes are broadly classified into 2 categories.