Question

women face disadvantage discrimination and oppression in various ways even today asses the statements by giving five suitable arguments

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

a. The literacy rate among women is only 54 per cent compared with 76 percent

among men. Similarly, a smaller proportion of girl students go for higher

studies. Many of them drop out because parents prefer to spend their resources

for their boys’ education.

b. The proportion of women among the highly paid and valued jobs is still very

small. On an average an Indian woman works one hour more than an average

man every day. Yet much of her work is not paid and therefore often not

valued.

c. The Equal Wages Act provides that equal wages should be paid to equal work.

However, in almost all areas of work, from sports and cinema, to factories and

fields, women are paid less than men, even when both do exactly the same

work.

d. In many parts of India parents prefer to have sons and find ways to have the

girl child aborted before she is born. Such sex-selective abortion led to a

decline in child sex ratio.

e. They are not safe even within their own home from beating, harassment and

other forms of domestic violence.