Name at least two sections of Indian society that were adversely affected by prevailing social inequalities.
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lower caste and middle caste sections, as well as group of people who couldn't afford their needs
ANSWER:
Lower caste and middle caste sections. Social inequality occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons.
EXPLANATION:
Gender as a social inequality is wherein men and women are treated in a different way because of femininity and masculinity by segregating labour, allocating roles/responsibilities and apportioning social rewards. Gender-based and sex-based discrimination and prejudice termed as sexism, are key contributing elements to social inequity. The focus on gender disparity is born out of the intensifying division in the roles allocated to women and men, especially in the political, educational, and economic spheres.
Ethnic/Racial inequality is due to hierarchical social differences between ethnic and racial categories in a society and is established on the basis of traits/features like skin colour and other physical traits/features or a person's place of culture/origin. Racism is where some races have more privileges and are permitted to "venture into" the labour "market and are better" remunerated than others. Ethnicity is the freedom one enjoys for "being a part of" a specific ethnic group.