Question

write a short note on the struggle for equality? write a short answer

Answer 1

• The Indian Constitution recognize all Indians are equal before the law such that no person is discrimination against because of their religion, sex, caste, or whether rich or poor.  

Answer 2

The Struggle for Equality Since the turn of the eighteenth century, women as a group have struggled to gain equal rights and the respect that men have had all their lives. Women were terribly discriminated against in a number of ways. One reason for the discrimination is solely based on the non-educated portion of women everywhere. Another reason women were discriminated was due to people seeing them as "men's property" or objects instead of equal human beings.

According to Mary Wollstonecraft in Vindication of the Rights of Women, she stated that the lack of education of women is the main source of the misery that they endure during their lives. Wollstonecraft feels that women act the way they do as in manner and the way they let men rule their lives, show that women's minds are not in a healthy state. Which can go back to the idea that women suffer from a lack of education.

McKay, Hill, and Buckler stated that women were discriminated against when they tried to enter into an educational setting. An example of this is Madame du Chatelet. She was a woman trying to obtain an education at the Royal Academy of Sciences, but was again denied due to her gender. Therefore, she had to rely on private tutors to get her education. She also felt that the lack of women's influences in science was due to the lack of education to women and unequal education if a women could get into a school (McKay 608). Another example of women and education was in the medical field. They were severely restricted due to always being denied admission into medical colleges; therefore they did not have the degrees that were required to practice as physicians and surgeons. Due to this women became virtually
L excluded from "scientific medicine". Women were normally found as midwives and healers. For example, midwives were allowed to assist during the labor process and in the delivery of babies. They were also allowed to take care of problems suffered only by women (McKay 674). Once again proving that women were degraded due to gender during this time period.

Another reason for the discrimination of women was because they were perceived as objects instead of human beings. According to Wollstonecraft, women were thought to only have the ambition to fall and love and get married, but she felt that women should set their standards and goals higher than just being a man's property. As stated in A History of Western Society, many servant girls were...