Women face disadvantage, discrimination and oppression in various ways:
i. In our country, women still lag much behind men despite some improvements since Independence. Gender division is not based on biology, but on stereotypes and social expectations.
ii. Women do all the work inside the home but men do the same kind of work only if they are paid for it.
iii. Majority of women do some sort of paid work in addition to domestic labour. But their work is not valued and does not get recognition.
iv. The literacy rate among women is only 54 percent as compared with 76 percent among men.
v. Similarly, a smaller proportion of girl students go for higher studies. Girls are performing as good as boys in school. But they drop out because parents prefer to spend their resources on their boys' education rather than spending equally on their sons and daughters.
vi. The proportion of women among the highly paid and valued jobs is still very small, On an average, an Indian woman works one hour more than an average man every day.
vii. The Equal Wages Act provides that equal wages should be paid to equal work. However, in almost all areas of work, from sports and cinema to factories and fields, women are paid less than men, even when both do exactly the same work.
viii. The role of women in politics is minimal in most societies.
ix. In many parts of India, parents prefer to have sons and find ways to have the girl child aborted before she is born. Such ***-selective abortion led to a decline in child *** ratio.
x. Woman face harassment, exploitation and violence on the domestic front.
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Women face disadvantage, discrimination and oppression in various ways:
i. In our country, women still lag much behind men despite some improvements since Independence. Gender division is not based on biology, but on stereotypes and social expectations.
ii. Women do all the work inside the home but men do the same kind of work only if they are paid for it.
iii. Majority of women do some sort of paid work in addition to domestic labour. But their work is not valued and does not get recognition.
iv. The literacy rate among women is only 54 percent as compared with 76 percent among men.
v. Similarly, a smaller proportion of girl students go for higher studies. Girls are performing as good as boys in school. But they drop out because parents prefer to spend their resources on their boys' education rather than spending equally on their sons and daughters.
vi. The proportion of women among the highly paid and valued jobs is still very small, On an average, an Indian woman works one hour more than an average man every day.
vii. The Equal Wages Act provides that equal wages should be paid to equal work. However, in almost all areas of work, from sports and cinema to factories and fields, women are paid less than men, even when both do exactly the same work.
viii. The role of women in politics is minimal in most societies.
ix. In many parts of India, parents prefer to have sons and find ways to have the girl child aborted before she is born. Such ***-selective abortion led to a decline in child *** ratio.
x. Woman face harassment, exploitation and violence on the domestic front.
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