7. Gender-bias in the society on the eve of independence was indicated by :
Mortality rate
Literacy rate
Death rate
Life expe
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Explanation:
India's demographic conditions during the British rule depict our economy as stagnant and backward. Due to high birth rate and high death rate the population growth was stagnant before 1921 the Infant Mortality Rate was also very high of about 218 per thousand which today stands at 47.57 per thousand. The; life expectancy rate was a low as 32 years while presently, it is around 66.8 years. The literacy rate was less. than 16% with female literacy rate of just 7% which denotes social backwardness and gender bias in the economy. We can infer from the above figures that India was featured with massive poverty, low standard and quality of living and low survival rate in the country. The lack of health care facilities and lack of health awareness were the main causes behind such demographic conditions of India.
Literacy rate
Explanation:
- Historically, literacy and educational success between men and women have been largely separated. The dominant male continues to dominate his peers in society. As a result , women in virtually every aspect of socio-economic growth are the deprived segment of society
- On the "eve of independence", the education level & literacy was very low in India. In the year 1947, only 16 percent of people were literate, of which male literacy was around 11% and "female literacy rate" was 7 %. This implies that a majority of the Indian populace was illiterate with women being in worse condition
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