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Women outside of the comfort zone A new generation of women in India are led to go out of their comfort zone. There are female students, workers or employed employees for example. Women walking late at night are frowned upon because they have no good reason to leave their home. People may -think they are engaging in suspicious activities or joining a lover (5). When something happens to a woman at night, she is often blamed because she had nothing to do at night in the street without the protection of a man. If she is assaulted this is her fault, she was not in her territory. Men seeing a single woman can imagine that the latter is trying to get noticed, while a woman will never seek to be assaulted (6) .

How to routinize and make safe the fact that women move freely in the public space at night. Women would feel less afraid if there were more others women walking alone by night.

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