explain five aspects of our daily life in which women is discriminated against in India
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Following are the main different aspects of life in which women are discriminated against or disadvantaged in India:
(i) At Home: The main responsibility of women is believed to be that she should perform housework and bring up children. This is reflected in a sexual division of labour. Women do all work inside the house such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, tailoring, looking after children etc., and men do all the work outside the home. It is not, that men cannot do house work; they simply think that it is for women to attend to these jobs.
(ii) Outside the Home: In our society, the work of women is not valued and does not get recognition. For instance, in rural areas and forest regions they fetch water and collect fuel. Sometimes they work in the fields. In fact majority of urban women do some sort of paid work in addition to domestic labour. But their work is not given due importance in the society.
(iii) In Public Life and Politics: Although women constitute half of the humanity, their role in public life, especially politics, is minimal in most societies. In our country, women still lag much behind men despite some improvement since independence. Ours is still a male-dominated society.
(iv) Literacy Level: The literacy rate among women is only 54 per cent compared to 76 per cent among men. Similarly, a smaller proportion of girl students go for higher studies. When we look at school results, girls perform as well as boys. But they drop out because parents prefer to spend their resources on their sons’ education than equally on their sons and daughters.
(v) Not Paid Properly in public jobs: No wonder the proportion of women among the highly paid and valued jobs is still very small. On an average Indian women work one hour more than an average man every day. Yet much of her work is not paid and therefore, often not valued.
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1) education discrimination
2) domestic violence
3)racial discrimination
4)if they wear short dresses
5) female infeticide