Question

TIL Give short answers to the following questions.
1. What is stereotyping?
2. Give two examples to show that there is discrimination against women in India
3. What is meant by female infanticide?
4. What was the Sati system? Who worked hard to remove this evil​

Answer 1

Explanation:

1. view or represent as a stereotype.
2. view or represent as a stereotype.A comprehensive anti-discrimination Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha last week by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. The law is meant to cover both the public as well as the private sectors and seeks to make public servants like the police accountable for their failure to prevent discrimination.
3. view or represent as a stereotype.A comprehensive anti-discrimination Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha last week by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. The law is meant to cover both the public as well as the private sectors and seeks to make public servants like the police accountable for their failure to prevent discrimination.Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of girl babies. It is also described as gender-selective killing or "gendercide".
4. The Sati or suttee was a historical practice found chiefly among Hindus in the northern and pre-modern regions of South Asia, in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. The extent to which sati was practised in history is not known with clarity. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the social reformer, who started working for a ban on sati. It was because of his efforts that, William Bentinck, the Governor-General of India, passed a law in 1821 making the practices of Sati illegal & punishable by law.