Women discrimination in India

Presented by :Rahul Mehrotra

PGDMITS, Mohan Nagar

Ghaziabad.

AN AGE OLD ‘PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY’ IN INDIA

Property rights only for sons

Son as the status symbol

Baap ko kandha dene wala

Ladki paraye ghar ka dhan

Ladki ghar ki ijjat

The big reason………..

Some questions ????????

Why only Seeta had to give Agni Pariksha And not Lord Rama ??

Why do only the sisters , daughters, wives and mothers have to

do fasting for the good of their fellow man and not the others way

round ?

Why does the Groom walk ahead of Bride during the marriage ?

Why can’t boys bring dowry like the girls do ?

Why can’t a girl inherit the property of her father?

Thinks of the world without Women

Sex ratio will decline in India

Correlation between development and sex ratio

78% of labour force in agriculture are women folk

Almost 100% kitchen work, child care and household work is taken

care of exclusively by women.

Female infanticide

In china and India,

women choose to

terminate their

pregnancies when

expecting daughters

but carry their

pregnancies to term

when expecting sons

Child labour

A 9 years old girl toils under the hot sun, making bricks from morning to night, seven days a weak. She was trafficked with her entire family from under-developed state…

Children like this young girl are prized

in the carpet industry for their small,

fast fingers. Defenseless, they do what

they are told, toiling in cramped, dark,

airless villaege huts from sunrise until

well into the night……..

•Beginning: presents for the departing daughter•usually resources to begin her new married life•slowly developed to extraordinary size•groom´s family gives a list to bride´s family •bride has to give otherwise no marriage•today it is forbidden 6 month prison•reason behind this custom: • poor economical conditions• unawareness of legal rights among women• general bias against women

Child marriage

Earlier, child marriages were highly

prevelent in India. The young girls would

live with their parents till they reached

puberty. They were to the person much

elder to them……….

Dowry System

Dowry is the money given in the form

of shelter to bride at the time of

marriage so that she is well maintained

by the Bride Groom………

And those who fail to pay dowry

either daughters are ill-treated and they

finally commit suicide

Domestic violence

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Honor killing

What: Killing of women that can be defined as acts of murder in which a woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior.

Who: Women who have failed to keep marriage contracts, refused to agree to arranged marriages, requested divorce, flirted with men other then their husbands, or for ‘allowing’ themselves to be raped.

Where: Most prominent in the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and Northwest Africa.

Why: For violating sexual norms or being victims of rape or other sexual rumor. This is a custom where women are treated as property and business contracts.

What we can do ???

Educate yourself about the rights of the Girl Child.

Contact local, state, and national politicians.• Write letters asking for their opinion on the rights of the Girl

Child.

Talk to your parents about the CRC.• Educate the adults in your life!

Advocate for awareness of the CRC.• Begin a social awareness/ human rights club.

For more information

UN High Commission on Human Rightswww.unhcr.org

UNICEFwww.unicef.org

Amnesty Internationalwww.amnesty.org

Youth Advocate Program Internationalwww.yapi.org

Domestic Violence[2].flv ORhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYWxfxMOUO4

Thank You