Eassy on Discrimination in India
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In the 21st century when I am putting my thoughts on gender discrimination I feel ashamed and a little pained. In-spite of the social reformers campaigning against gender discrimination, in-spite of the laws passed in India giving equal status and equal right to women with men in right to work and right to vote, gender discrimination still persists.
During the last century several social and legal measures have been initiated to remove disparities between men and women. Social reformers have actively campaigned against Sati Daha, cruelty against women and Purdah system.
While Sati Daha has been mostly eradicated Purdah system is partly eradicated. But cruelty against women and gender discrimination still persist in each and every society in greater or lesser degree.
This is obvious from the media reports, and T.V. news on assault and discrimination against women. Gender discrimination refers to both discrimination against men and women but in our society only women are discriminated, not men.
Women are said to be the better half of the husband, but woman is considered as the worst half in reality in our society. What is the meaning of gender? Gender means a society’s beliefs about the traits and behaviour of male and female or whether a person is of male sex or female sex.
Discrimination on the grounds of sex is a chronic disease in our society. It persists since many hundred years. This bias has been transmitted into our culture from generation to generation. Cultural beliefs or fixed ideas about differences between men and women lead to gender discrimination.
When the hostility is greater there may be discrimination. For examples many prevent women from attending an interview or getting an employment. Though gender discrimination is a very old practice in our society it became more pronounced with the increase in population.
Though men and women are the two sides of a coin and contribute together for the family and upliftment of the society, stay together and sleep on the same bed, women are looked down with bias and prejudice even in their own family. Women contribute equally to the population of the world like men.
Women in the last century and also in the twenty first century have earned name and fame in every area; be it politics, profession, space research, medical science, home management, administration, education, computer science, business and research in different areas.