write a paragraph on gender discrimination in 120 words
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Gender discrimination in India means health, education, economic and political discrimination b/w men and women. Today our country offers a lot of opportunities to women with women having a voice in everyday life, the business world as well as in political life.
Nevertheless India is still a male dominated country, where women are often seen as subordinate and inferior to men. Even though India is moving away from the male dominated culture, discrimination is still highly visible in rural as well as in urban areas, throughout each and every strata of society.While women are guaranteed equality under the Constitution, legal protection has a limited effect where partriarchal tradition prevail.
According to Global Gap Report released by World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2015, India was ranked 108 on the gender gap scale among 145 countries. When broken down into components of gender gap, India performs well on political empowerment, but it scored bad on sex selective abortion.
India also scored poorly on overall literary and health rankings of female. India with a 2015 ranking of 108 had an overall score of 0.664 while Iceland topped the list with an overall score 0.887
Various protective legislations have been passed by the Parliament to eliminate exploitation of women and to give them equal status in society. The government of India has taken steps and passed various acts to ensure gender equality in the country.
Hindu Succession Act (1956),. They Dowry Prohibition Act (1961), The DC and PNDT Act (2002), 33% of seats in Panchayat for women. The sexual harrassment of women at work place (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 are some laws to protect the interest of women in our society.
Further government has launched some schemes like, 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' 'Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya' 'Mother and Child Tracking System', The Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojna etc to lessen the gender discrimination.
We hope that our democratic government would be able to find solution to the problem of gender discrimination and would take us all towards the cherished dream of a truly modern society in both thought and action