Reevaluating Gender Equality: Are Women Being Taken for Granted? I was profoundly shocked and saddened to learn about the tragic incident involving a 31-year-old doctor who was raped and murdered in a seminar room at a hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on August 9th. Compounding this tragedy, two additional cases of rape have also made headlines in India. On August 8th, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, a nurse was reportedly raped and killed while returning home from work. She had been missing since the end of July, and her body was discovered last week. Similarly, in the northern state of Bihar, six individuals have been arrested for the alleged gang-rape and murder of a teenage Dalit girl. Her mutilated body was found near a pond in a village in Muzaffarpur district during the same week. Violence against women is not only prevalent in India but also occurs in the United States. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, one in five women has experienced c