Women Discrimination In India

1. Women discrimination in
India
Presented by :
Rahul Mehrotra
PGDM
ITS, Mohan Nagar
Ghaziabad.

3. The big reason………..
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

4. 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?

5. 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.

6. Female infanticide
In china and India,
women choose to
terminate their
pregnancies when
expecting daughters
but carry their
pregnancies to term
when expecting sons

7. 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…

8. 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……..

9. Child marriage
•Beginning: presents for the departing daughter
•usually resources to begin her new married life
Earlier, child marriages to extraordinary size
•slowly developed were highly
•groom´s family young list to bride´s family
prevelent in India. Thegives agirls would
•bride has to give otherwise no marriage
live with their parents till they reached
•today it is forbidden  6 month prison
puberty. They were to the custom:
•reason behind this person much
•poor economical conditions
elder to them……….
•unawareness of legal rights among women
•general bias against women

10. 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

12. Domestic violence

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14. 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.

15. 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.

16. For more information
UN High Commission on Human Rights
www.unhcr.org
UNICEF
www.unicef.org
Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org
Youth Advocate Program International
www.yapi.org

17. OR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYWxfxMO
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