Question

What is dowry? How it effect the women?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The dowry system dehumanizes women by treating them as property — goods that can be exchanged. To make matters worse, the system also casts them as a burden, rather than an asset, to be passed along — a bride's family pays the groom's family for the cost of taking care of the bride.

Answer 2

The custom of dowry in Indian marriages is a deep-seated cultural phenomenon that has been described as one of the largest obstacles to “confront India on her road to economic and social justice (Dreze and Sen).

Explanation:

the Dowry Prohibition Act of 1961 that outlawed the practice has been remarkably unsuccessful in reducing the frequency of its occurrence.