Hard times for software guys

About 40 per cent of harassed husbands in the city are techies, study findsTechies earning fat salaries are the most harassed among Bangalore husbands.A study carried out by Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), a city based NGO, reveals that software professionals make up about 40 per cent of the total number of harassed husbands.Huge pay packets make techies soft targets, say members of the foundation who carried out the study over 15 months. The study is shocking, said Panduranga Katti, president of SIFF. Software professionals getting huge benefits from companies is a known fact and wives are misusing this every day. In most cases, wives demand money and threaten to complain to the police. The shareSIFF, which works to empower harassed husbands through its website and branches across the nation, studied about 1,100 cases in Bangalore from January 2008 to April 2009.u00a0After the techies, came men with private businesses. They constituted 11.7 per cent of the cases. Husbands from administration and the military made up about 10 per cent of the cases. Legal help for hassled hubbiesMen in government service, heavy engineering and management, and the finance sector made up 7.8, 7 and 6.3 per cent of the total cases respectively. The study included professionals, who approached the NGO through the internet. While 73 per cent of the cases approached SIFF through its website http://www.indianfamily.org/, the rest approached them through friends.HelpSIFF plans to empower harassed husbands by providing them with legal support based on court judgments.Besides legal help, we will empower husbands through sessions of basic strategies and tactics. This will be done step by step, said Virag Dhulia, member, SIFF.What women wantThis is how wives harass husbands, according to the study:>>Demanding money and threatening to file police complaints >>Wanting parents to be sent away from the house >>Forcing the husband to buy property >>Adultery