I would say that treatment off women is better in the South than the North, just from my experience.

In the north we had the following issues (western guy with chinese girlfriend)

> Not realising the Metro had separate coaches for women, she was touched in very bad places. In the end she had to stand in the corner with me blocking access to her. It wasn't a nice situation to be in
> She was stared at all the time, anywhere we went.
> Constantly being asked to have her picture taken. We got so fed up of it we started asking for a 100 rupee fee, which soon got rid of them
> At one point we were in a very large mall. I went to the toilet, she waited outside for me, and when i came out I found a large group of young guys standing around her pointing, laughing, and trying to get each other to touch her.

The above was the same in Delhi, Varanasi, Jaipur and Agra. As you can imagine she isn't keen to return to the North any time soon.

We didn't have the same problem in Tamil Nadu or Goa