How do women go being property to owning property?
Let us take an example of women liberalisation in India. Once upon a time there was a country called India and women were terribly helpless in Indian society. They use to get married when they came up to a certain age, and once married , their fate were tied to their husbands. The man may beat his wife, abuse her , not careful her and do whatever else , she had no way out, but to except things as such. She could not have left him as the society would outcaste her. But then came the changes. Women were allowed not only to break up with their husbands but also to remarry.
In India the roots and discrimination lies in the religious and cultural practices of India. The beginning of changes started with the reform movement in the19th century , which addresses practices like SATI , CHILD MARRIAGE, LIFE OF WIDOWS , etc. The status of women in the contemporary context is reflected in the state of their health , education , employment and life in society.
Most of the work that women do, such as collecting fuel, fodder and water , or growing vegetables ,or keeping poverty for domestic consumption, goes unrecorded in the census counts. Many women and girls who work on family land are not recorded as workers. Crime against women has been at its apex. The extent of trafficking in women is unknown.
In the persent era, the quality of life of women has grown by leaps in the past few years and in our country the government has reserved seats for women in the panchayat in 2011. The parliament is looking forward to introduce a bill for 33% seat reservation for women. Moreover an act has been recently passed against violence for women.
It is a paradox of modern India that women yield power an...
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...cting HIV- AIDS. Women may be less likely to be a victim of domestic violence; children are more likely to receive an education and stay in school longer. Women may have better access to micro credit.
Things have not remain the same in last few decades or even centuries. The social fabric has acquired completely new dimension. Thanks to the effort of government , NGOS , welfare organisations and many such institutions , there has been a drastic improvement. Many private corporate bodies have also taken a keen interest in improving the economic status of women and the result are extremely encouraging. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has once said ,”You can’t tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women”. How true! We completely subscribed to this belief and steps are on its way to further improve the conditions of women in the rural sector.
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... make women more susceptible to HIV/AIDS and other sexual diseases. This injustice needs to be solved on a global context.
South Asian women engage in patriarchal values and normative structure established more than two thousands years ago, continue to be oppressed by a dominant group of men. These women suffer further oppression through the strict adherence to cultural garb. Still today, media and educational system portray South Asian women as self-sacrificing, faithful to the family, and submissive to men.
Gender roles have been a predominant factor in our world since the early emergence of human societies whether they are positive or negative. They are based on expectations that societies have over the people in them. The Epic of Sunjata, shows us how men and women are treated almost equally in different forms. Women are praised for their ability to birth leaders, which is similar to the early Greek Society. In most societies, women are treated less equal than men. This was prevalent in the early Indian society. No matter the gender role, it has been shown that any society cannot survive without both men and women.
Despite the drastic changes made toward the improvement of equal rights there a still many problems that have been overlooked, or simply ignored. According to Mario Osave, (2010) “Thirty years after the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), many girls and women still do not have equal opportunities to realize rights recognized by law. In many countries, women are not entitled to own property or inherit land. Social exclusion, “honor” killings, female genital mutilation, trafficking, restricted mobility and early marriage among others, deny the right to health to women and girls and increase illness and death throughout the life-course.” (Shah 1)
...ntries women are restricted in where they can and cannot work. Most commonly, they seem to be restricted from jobs in which physically taxing tasks are the norm. This is no doubt due to the stereotype that women are fragile and weak and must be protected (a stereotype that can hold true, but that is not always true). This also seems to be consistent across culture. However, despite the fact that these restrictions were enacted to protect women, they place heavy limitations on women’s opportunities. Furthermore, these are not the only injustices many women across the world face. However, the only way to fight these injustices is to increase women’s participation in politics, as discussed in the UN report from 2008. It is absolutely vital that women be able to actively participate in politics without letting gender discrimination and stereotypes get in the way.
The society also had its cultural practices which played a big role in my situation. This setting brought out a culture where women were to always stay at home and wait for the men to go get food and do the hard work leaving the women behind taking care of children and carrying out the house chores. This provision only increased the poverty in the area and especially in my personal experience where my father dies and my mother who was used to staying at home as the custom, is now the one who will struggle getting a job that which will take a woman for an
Throughout many eras, women have been discriminated in various aspects from all around the world. Some of the aspects include dressing requirements, access to education,
It is argued that societies who supports education for women are more prone to experience dramatic social progress. It is further explained that when women enters the workforce, they contribute to their countries' economic prospects, and this leads to their economic independence thus improve their stature both at home and in the community. According to the report, globalization is the 'antidote to the intolerant fundamentalism' that helps eliminate regressive taboos responsible for the promotion of gender discrimination. When discussing the impact of globalization on women, Subhalakshmi (2012) looked at women workers in India. She explained that globalization has opened up various employment opportunities for Indian women, hence increasing their purchasing power, self-confidence and independency. This, in turn, is seen as a potential way to increase equality between the sexes and afford women an equal stance in
In document UN/ CRC/ 531, analyzed through UNICEF, an estimated 25% of the world’s children (developing world) are in the web of child labor. To add to this, nearly 70% of all girl/female laborers go unregistered, often performing acts of prostitution and strenuous domestic housework. This form of unregistered work is dangerous to young girls because the employers often abuse their employees sexually and physically, as well as psychologically scarring them for years. This alarming fact can be attributed to the inequality of education given to young girls.
Feminization of poverty is when there is an increase in the proportion of females that fall into the low income or poverty population. Also, it is the social process in which the proportion of low income females becomes higher than the proportion of low income males. This issue not only important
The first solution that should be suggested is for more efforts to be required by civil society groups and government agencies for greater awareness on gender issues and rekindling efforts of all stakeholders in the quest to formulating policies and programs towards reduction of gender inequality. Specifically, both education and health programs should be emphasized. These programs could greatly benefit women because it can improve access to services for both women and men by removing financial barriers, bringing services closer to local communities, and tackling HIV/AIDS. This would lead to men having a deeper understanding of how protecting their wives and women in general is important, such as always wearing a condom during sex, which would lead to women having a lower chance of contacting
Women have often been called upon to make sacrifices and suppress their personal desires.They have often been left on the margins of the social set-up as far as their personal desires and fufilment of those desires is concerned. Women are not a minority in our society but their “lives, experiences and values have been treated as marginal” and men’s experiences have been assumed to be central to society. One also needs to contest the often stated view that in India women have always enjoyed a place of respect and dignity, that they have been respected as ‘devis.’ It needs to be seen that “the respect and privileges which accompany the position of a ‘devi’ are not only anti-individualistic,” they are also anti-humanistic and “deny women a personhood”.
They have only agricultural labour to invest. These people spend most of the time in a year without getting any work. As a result, during these periods they do not have any scope of earning. 50% of total population in this country are women. They are less educated, unskilled and do not have any access to income generating activities.
The modern world has resulted in earnings, wages and salaries for the women similar to that of men, but the women are continuously facing inequalities in the work force (Andal 2002). This2 can be attributed to the pre-established notion that women shall not be given access to finance or communication with the world outside of the home which is highly unethical and unfair (Eisenhower, 2002). In the past, they were considered as the underprivileged ones which were not thought of having equal rights but this fact has changed now. The status of women can be explicitly defined as the equality and the freedom of the women.