Question

Write an article on "Evils of Gender Discrimination"(150 - 250 words )

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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Gender Discrimination:An Unfortunate Practice

Gender discrimination has been an old practice and a social evil in our country from a long time back. Though now it has been reduced, there are still villages, away from modernity, who still practice this unfortunate evil. Discrimination comes from prejudice and prejudice comes from us.

Often people have to face a lot of humiliation because of the gender discrimination. The women of our society are affected the most. But sometimes men also get troubled by it.

Boys sometimes want to choose nursing or fashion designing as their future jobs. But they are prevented to take so because they are 'boys'. It is believed that boy's will take jobs that are much more productive. A common prejudice that is quite heard from childhood days that 'boys never cry'. Is it really so? Of course it is not so. Everybody cries when they feel sad or demotivated. But our very own society decided that it thinks that it is just the girls who cry.

Though boys face trouble it is not so much compared to that faced by the women. WOMEN - The prey of gender discrimination
When God created us he never decided who will be discriminated and who will be not. Then why are the women ill treated? Why are they harassed? Why are they treated differently than men? Just because they are a woman?

Often it is seen that women are not provided with as many opportunities that men are provided with. Even if they are working they are paid less. But this is very rare case because most women are not allowed to go and work. It was thought that if women work outside it would be difficult to marry them. They are sometimes not even allowed to go out of the house.

Parents are often more protective about the girls than the boys. Girls are not allowed to stay late at night but boys are. Women who travel at night are viewed with suspicion and the society often ignores her and her work.

All the better opportunities like schooling and all are first provided to boys. If people are rich then they think whether to send their girls. But if they are poor they just send their boys. This is because the boys will be the future bread winner of the family, while the girls will be married off. So spending money on their education and needs were thought as a wastage of money as anyway she would have to leave her house when she grows up

"Women of 2017. We need to value ourselves and do not let men or anybody harass or ill treated us in anyway. If we are not conscious of what is happening we will never be able to improve the condition of our country. We are the future generation of our country. We need to improve it because WE ARE WOMEN"

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