Geographic Impacts
The impacts socially of the gendercide include women being married younger and younger due to the lack of suitable age females. This young marriage and the pressures on the young girls to provide families causes them to miscarriages and create harm to their underdeveloped bodies. In addition to younger marriages, high rates of prostitution become a problem. Most girls will be stolen and sold into sex trafficking. The lack of females causes male tensions to be high with no female perspective to calm down all the male testosterone in the environment. With no females to marry and love, they turn to illegal practices to satisfy their desires. The marriage of such young females also hurts their opportunity to grow and develop as women in society. They lose their chance for education, and they settle down to simply raise children. This also
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The wife 's desires for a girl also can be unselfish in their eyes by saying they are protecting them from a life of poverty since they had not yet had a son who could provide their prosperity. “Dowry deaths” are also an age old tradition that is a custom for the religion. But with the heavy problem of gendercide, the government outlawed the use of a dowry. But since tradition is so heavy and rich it still happens. The families want to live up to expectations and even if it is not “required” it still looks good for a family to compensate the other in a social standing. The problem with this is that they still see females as burdens even though there is no requirement to provide a dowry. It is the age-old tradition to give a dowry that is hurting the females. The old ways need to be adapted, and the culture itself needs to understand that it is okay not to provide a dowry. This is the only way change for females can come and ensure them a success and longevity in their
If these girls are forced into marriages, they will be missing pieces of how to be a woman and a wife. It is so risky for not only the family but could jeopardize the girl’s future. If she is ‘tarnished’ she can’t get a husband. This can really take a toll on their psychological wellbeing. It makes the girls feel as if they are not enough, or have no value. The only value women have in the Afghan society is to be a wife and mother. The tradition of bacha posh can really hurt these young
Gendercide can exist in a variety of ways. According to the article Genocide and Social Death by Claudia Card, social death is “ [a] loss of social vitality is loss of identity and thereby [causes a loss] of meaning for one's existence.” Social death is a major component of genocide and can take the form of gendercide. In the Rwandan genocide, rape was a mechanism of social death that used as a form of gendercide against men. Charles, a victim of female perpetrated rape during the Rwandan genocide, recounted his experience of being raped by women.
In the 19th century, A wedding represented the transfer of a woman’s dependence on money from her family to her new husband. There was also a transfer of the woman's property, called a dowry, from the bride’s father to her husband. This transfer of property was made if the marriage was voluntary or an arranged marriage where the woman's consent was not asked for.
The ills of dowry in the past have been introduced. The cause of this theory, which leads to inferiority and inequality, are firstly because of moral and social duties of parents. It is an important duty for parents to get their daughter married when they have grown to become a woman, in the scripture it is also believed that after a certain age the daughter must leave the house to be wed. Therefore, the parents then have to seek for a groom for their daughter. This allows the male’s side to take advantage of the situation and extract and sucks the dowry from the bride side. If the offer does not meet, their satisfaction then there is no marriage. This is like a business transaction. In addition, we must into consideration that many of these ...
“A thief has come,” is a simple yet complex Rajasthani saying in India when a daughter is born. The hatred with female girls in this patriarchy of society is exceedingly frustrating with me because I am already aware that in India the reason for this hatred is mostly economic and all surrounding a “dowry.” What I can’t quite grasp is how women are treated less than men inside of the womb and outside of the womb as the young girls who do survive turn into older women, how their only purpose in society is not to prosper but
For the duration of time, society perceives men as superior, which infused to their cultural aspect in life. Society instilled male dominance to the minds of young children, imposing a role each sex must play. Girls are slaves of society, submitting to men as their master. And child brides are a perfect way to exhibit patriarchy society (Ludden). The young girl would be married off to take care of her own family, crippling them in attaining an education and getting a job. Girls were not meant to work (Radu). It is also said that the purpose of marrying off girls young was to keep their attractiveness. Roberta Radu says, “'Virginity is an "asset" that families customarily trade for substantial sums of money, so marriage is arranged as early as possible in order to preserve the girl's "desirability". Out of all of these inducements money was the biggest factor. Parents would arrange their daughter marriage due to poverty. The bride’s family would receive a dowry, basically trading girls for money. Again, girls were burdens and the parents used child marriage as a relief...
After marriage, more of these values are expected to be carried on is the way the family decisions are made and the ways things are done. The male is known as the authority figure in the family. An Indian woman has to abide be what the men say and basically allow him to run the show. This does not say that he has no responsibilities, because that is wrong be all means. He has a responsibility to support the family and show the children how to work the fields and support the family.
Girls all over the world are forced into marriages due to financial necessity, tradition and to ensure their future. Most of these girls married are at a young age: “One third of the world’s girls are married before the age of 18 and 1 in 9 are married before the age of 15”( “Child Marriage Facts and Figures”). The young ages of those being married reveal how crucial it is to resolve this problem. When child marriage occurs the parents of the bride usually chose the groom for their daughters; and these grooms can be three times older than the young brides. Some children are brought into the world of marriage at the of 8 or sometimes less depending on their cultural views. The following can be used to help reduce the impact of early marriage: reinforcing laws that are passed against child marriages, and providing information on contraceptives to victims of early marriage. The most efficient way of resolving the problem of child marriage is through educating the people who practice it about its adverse effects.
Dowry system was unknown in early times. In rich and royal families gifts used to be given son-in-law at the time of marriage .It appears the dowry system came into vogue when child marriages became the order of the day, from about 200 AD to secure a very desirable match the father of the girl. Often spent much more than what he could afford and ensured the marriage of the daughter within pre puberty period .dowry is a deep rooted social evil.
The gender issues in today’s society are issues to discuss because they are tainting the lives of people from an early age. This is important because girls and boys are showing increasing levels of insecurities that are arising due to fundamental gender issues in society. The masculine stereotype is one the most prevailing causes of gender issues in society, especially the issue of sexism. Our society must address this issue because the cycle of sexism only feeds into peoples’ insecurities. Men should not feel obligated to objectify women to feel masculine and women should not feel like they must be sensual and beautiful to have value. The stereotypes that are being placed on men and young boys effect the attitudes of the women around them and creates a cycle of hypersexualization and sexism, leaving the relationships between genders tainted and women feeling less confident in themselves. By changing the way people think men and women are supposed to be, we can change the way our society values one another and in turn, become a more equal and respectful society.
While arranged marriages are still a common practice, and some girls believe that there are benefits from the arranged marriage, some future brides feel uncertain and scared of getting married because it would mean that they would have to leave the comfort of their home. Not only that, but it is not uncommon for the family of the groom to put extra pressure on their new daughter-in-law. Everything, including her behavior, her clothing, and her housework will be under observation. Whether or not arranged marriages are the best way to create families or find love, it is interesting to see how there is not just one way to get married.
Western values are different as women fight for equality, stand up for themselves and are independent. Compared to lives in India, values are different as women are expected to be a pativrata as explained earlier in the essay. Woman are not independent as their lives revolve around men; either their father, husband or sons. In marriage, women are responsible for the lives of their husband. The wives are to make sure their husband has everything they need such as food cooked, his clothes clean and the kids are taken care of before the wife gets what she needs. As women in marriage are responsible for their husbands’ lives, it is frowned upon if their husband dies before the wife dies. This experience is seen as though the wife did not take good enough care of their husbands. Women who experience their husbands dying are called widows, and widows in the Western world and widows in India are perceived differently. Widows in India are treated poorly, they are disowned by their families, humiliated and mistreated. Widows are common to abuse, verbal and physical, from in-laws and the denial to her dead husband’s property and assets. As a Sati, these acts upon the widow is not allowed. A soon to be Sati is granted the power to curse anyone who dares to stop the ritual from occurring, after the Sati has made the vow to become a Sati. Widows in India lose
So, why do they do this? If the cost of your daughter's wedding was your entire life's savings and maybe more, wouldn’t you think twice about having a daughter then? Would you condemn someone else if they did not want to have a daughter? A few months ago, in Western India, a teenager committed suicide. 19-yr old Priya consumed poison because she was being pestered by her in-laws for money, a lot of money. Five of her family members including her husband have been arrested. In India, this is called 'Dowry Death'. Dowry is a sum of money or gifts that a bride's family pays to the groom’s family at the wedding and it is almost always a very significant amount of money. Dowry was banned 50 years ago, but as a tradition it still very much exists. It's extensively practiced around the country. Sometimes the relatives pester the woman so much even after the wedding, that they, unable to bear the trauma, commit suicide. And sometimes they are even killed. And that ‘is’ a big enough reason for parents to wish for a boy.
Amanda Hitchcock. 2001. “Rising Number of Dowry Deaths in India.” Annual Editions: Anthropology 11/12, 34th Edition. Elvio Angeloni. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Child marriage is a popular practice in India and Middle Eastern countries. It is defined as “a formal union before the age of eighteen” (unicef). In some cases the husband can be more than twice the age of the young girl. The median age of women at the time of their marriage is starting to increase, although this primarily includes women in higher income families. Seen as taboo in western countries, the practice is common in rural towns in places like India and Yemen. As a result of the marriage many young girls get pregnant, which is a serious health risk due to their underdeveloped bodies. The practice of child marriage takes away a young woman’s right to an education and also poses serious health risks.