Question

What are various ways in which women face disadvantage and discrimination?

Answer 1

1. They are abused either verbally or sexually.
2. They are not given the right to make a final decision in a family.
3. The income of women is generally low as compared to men in commercial companies.
4. Society thinks that they are not as advantageous as being a man.
5. They are married and are forced not to work and their whole life is spent only in performing household duties.
6. They are generally not given much importance by the society.
7. Political parties use them as a vote bank.
8. They are not given much importance in international and national level of sport. You can take the example of Indian women football/hockey team. They had to take an auto-rickshaw after they were returning from winning a match to reach home.
9. It's a common misconception that girls are weak and cry easily. Thus, this humiliates them. However, education is improving this situation.

Answer 2

Women are still discriminated because of the following reasons :

1. Ours is still a male dominated society. It is believed that women should perform house work.

2. In our society the work of women is not valued and does not get recognition.

3. Literacy rate among women is only 54% compared to 76%among men.

4. No. Of women in the highly paid jobs is still very small.

5. In India, the proportion of women in legislature has been very low