article on discrimination between girl and boy child in rural areas. explain that such an attitude is harmful and unjust
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Answer:
It is a reality that gender disparity still exists in India. It is seen within the households, at workplaces and in the society at large.
Explanation:
Gender discrimination begins even before a child is born
The horrifying practice of female foeticide – identifying the sex of the foetus and termining it in case it’s female – still exists in India. While we have come a long way and this ill-practice is losing ground, there are still numerous families which consider the girl child as a “burden” and have no qualms in preventing their birth. This stems from the mindset that the male child will go on to become a source of income from the family and will carry on the family lineage while the girl child will have to be ultimately married off to another family.
For ages, men have continued to dominate societal and family life in India. While this scenario is changing with increasing levels of female literacy and urbanization, in the hinterlands men continue to dominate the social life.
Discrimination against the females begins when they are girls. Parents often don’t send girls to school while boys in the family are provided access to education. Many who are sent to school are asked to dropout and help their mothers in household work. Parents spend time in grooming girls for becoming good wives and concentrate very little on providing them learning and knowledge.
Elders of the family hold the view that girls have to be eventually married off and there is no point in spending much on their education. Education for boys, on the other hand, is seen as an investment as they are viewed as future “earning members” of the family. Girls are only considered fit for performing household chores. It is this mindset which needs to change so that girls are not denied their chance to learn and grow in life.
Education is also instrumental in bringing down child marriages, maternal mortality, domestic violence and combating other women-related issues.
Our girls deserve equal opportunities as boys. Government’s flagship scheme ‘BetiBachao, BetiPadhao’ will go a long way in ensuring this. Save the Children fully supports Government of India’s ‘BetiBachao, BetiPadhao’ movement and is committed to give Indian girls a future to look forward to.