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Women discrimination in India
Presented by :Rahul Mehrotra
PGDMITS, Mohan Nagar
Ghaziabad.
AN AGE OLD ‘PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY’ IN INDIA
Property rights only for sons
Son as the status symbol
Baap ko kandha dene wala
Ladki paraye ghar ka dhan
Ladki ghar ki ijjat
The big reason………..
Some questions ????????
Why only Seeta had to give Agni Pariksha And not Lord Rama ??
Why do only the sisters , daughters, wives and mothers have to
do fasting for the good of their fellow man and not the others way
round ?
Why does the Groom walk ahead of Bride during the marriage ?
Why can’t boys bring dowry like the girls do ?
Why can’t a girl inherit the property of her father?
Thinks of the world without Women
Sex ratio will decline in India
Correlation between development and sex ratio
78% of labour force in agriculture are women folk
Almost 100% kitchen work, child care and household work is taken
care of exclusively by women.
Female infanticide
In china and India,
women choose to
terminate their
pregnancies when
expecting daughters
but carry their
pregnancies to term
when expecting sons
Child labour
A 9 years old girl toils under the hot sun, making bricks from morning to night, seven days a weak. She was trafficked with her entire family from under-developed state…
Children like this young girl are prized
in the carpet industry for their small,
fast fingers. Defenseless, they do what
they are told, toiling in cramped, dark,
airless villaege huts from sunrise until
well into the night……..
•Beginning: presents for the departing daughter•usually resources to begin her new married life•slowly developed to extraordinary size•groom´s family gives a list to bride´s family •bride has to give otherwise no marriage•today it is forbidden 6 month prison•reason behind this custom: • poor economical conditions• unawareness of legal rights among women• general bias against women
Child marriage
Earlier, child marriages were highly
prevelent in India. The young girls would
live with their parents till they reached
puberty. They were to the person much
elder to them……….
Dowry System
Dowry is the money given in the form
of shelter to bride at the time of
marriage so that she is well maintained
by the Bride Groom………
And those who fail to pay dowry
either daughters are ill-treated and they
finally commit suicide
Domestic violence
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43
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Honor killing
What: Killing of women that can be defined as acts of murder in which a woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior.
Who: Women who have failed to keep marriage contracts, refused to agree to arranged marriages, requested divorce, flirted with men other then their husbands, or for ‘allowing’ themselves to be raped.
Where: Most prominent in the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and Northwest Africa.
Why: For violating sexual norms or being victims of rape or other sexual rumor. This is a custom where women are treated as property and business contracts.
What we can do ???
Educate yourself about the rights of the Girl Child.
Contact local, state, and national politicians.• Write letters asking for their opinion on the rights of the Girl
Child.
Talk to your parents about the CRC.• Educate the adults in your life!
Advocate for awareness of the CRC.• Begin a social awareness/ human rights club.
For more information
UN High Commission on Human Rightswww.unhcr.org
UNICEFwww.unicef.org
Amnesty Internationalwww.amnesty.org
Youth Advocate Program Internationalwww.yapi.org
Domestic Violence[2].flv ORhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYWxfxMOUO4
Thank You