INTRODUCTION
Gender inequality in India refers to health, education, economic and political inequalities between men and women in India. Various international gender inequality indicates rank India differently on each of these factors, as well as on a composite basis, and these indices are controversial.
Educating girl child is still seen as a bad investment because she is bound to get married and leave her paternal home one day. Thus, without having good education women are found lacking in present day’s demanding job skills; whereas, each year’s High School and 10+2 standard results show that girls are always doing better than boys. This shows that parents are not spending much after 10+2 standard on girl child and that’s why they lack in job market.
Not only in education, in case of family food habits, it is the male child who gets all the nutritious and choicest foods while the girl child gets whatever is left behind after the male members have taken their meals or the food which is low in both quality and nutrition. And this becomes a major health issue in her later years. One of the main reasons for the high incidences of difficult births and anemia in women is the poor quality of food which a girl always gets either in her paternal home or in her in-laws as also is the excessive workload that they are made to bear from their early childhood.
So the inequality or discrimination against women is at various levels in the society, either in home or outside home.
The article gives two explanations as to why women do not participate in the labor market as much as men do which is due to: “The first explanation attributes the gap to labor market discrimination: if employers value women’s education less than that of men’s education, then economic incentives to educate girls are lower (Kingdon 1998). The second explanation relates to kinship norms in India, which often dictate that a daughter will leave the household after marriage” (Rammohan and Patrick 2018:143). Both journal articles simply emphasize the culture’s distaste for women in education and how societal expectations make it a challenge for women to get an education. The negative connotation about women being educated rather than focusing on marriage has caused many to grow up believing that education was unimportant and that
Gender inequality is a very important issue in today’s world that needs to be solved. While it may seem that gender inequality has only been an issue in recent years, it has been going on since humans were living in caves. The stereotype that “men are strong, women are weak” began all the way back when humans were primitive. The primitive men were always the hunters and laborers, and the women were the ones who stayed at home, took care of kids, worked with agriculture, and made food and clothes. The labor women did was, in many ways, more difficult and stressful.
According to UNESCO, “The EFA Assessment estimated that 113 million children were not enrolled in primary school in 1998 and 60% of the total are girls” (UNESCO, 2000). Furthermore, for Indian girls, education is far less significant than their virginity and purity for gaining the social status. Moreover, as a developing country, lots of Indian families will require their girls to work in order to support the family while on the other hand, boys are encouraged to go to school (Argintar, J.,
This attitude results in the treatment of women as less than men and can be found just about anywhere. “Parental preference for male children in China and India has been well publicized, a prenatal preference for boys exists in the United States as well” (Atwood, Pg.24). However, it is especially prominent in smaller, less developed countries where the need for a head of household is greater. With that being said, the need for a dominating head of the household is not the only reason for the patriarchal society we see today.
Role of Women in Medieval Europe Women Women are one of the most important people, and they face discrimination and hardships all of the time. They are termed as weak and are often not treated well. Medieval Europe According to the Europe history, the medieval period or the middle ages lasted from the 5th to the 15th era. It all started with the downfall of Western Roman Empire and then got mixed into the period of Renaissance and the age of discovery.
Equality among people justifies the development of human civilization. The history witnesses how people mistreated the others and how other people fought for freedom. It proves a permanent truth that the more civilized the people are, the less inequality would be promoted. However, there was no one period in the past, even now, without inequality completely. The slavery issue in the West and the gender inequality in the East both brought unimaginable damage for not only the groups of people who were mistreated, but also the society which is supposed to be peaceful, fair and justice.
The men still has the power over the marriage nowadays, and the woman’s social and economic status have a great impact on whether the man’s family finds her suitable for him. In addition to marriage, education is also important, because in India, most women are much less educated than men and are given less opportunities. Usually men go to Universities either in India or overseas to study, more specifically medicine or engineering.
“I speak not for myself but those without voice...those who have fought for their rights.. their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated,” said by Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist. Just as Yousafzai, everyone has a dream or vision intending for America succeed in variety of ways. For me, America will succeed morally as a nation if it restores the true meaning of equality in religion, workforce, and education. In America, citizens are enabled to pursue themselves to any religion they wish to, however the equality of the religions is not present. In this case, religions do not find other religions to have the same value.
America has advanced socially in regards to sexual equality since the birth of the nation. There have been many advances in society, especially for women, despite these advancements, there continues to be inequalities in sexual “equality” .Why does a wage difference exists between men and women? Are employers being sexist? Sexism has been a problem since the beginning of mankind.
(Sen, 2001). Such phenomenon usually has roots in unequal access to the healthcare and nutrition. Natality inequality. In male-dominated societies, such as China, South Korea and Armenia gender inequality can result in sex-selective
Analysis Issue Nowadays, there are still women not allowed to be educated in some countries. This issue is drawing more and more attention. Many countries are starting to make a big step towards the goal of gender equality in education but there are still 62 million women in the world who are not allowed to attend education. Causes Poverty, religions and tradition are the main causes of gender inequality in education. In most of the undeveloped countries, there are lots of families thinking that a female is not as valuable to them comparing to a male because they believe that after the female get married they will not gain anything because the female
The social stigma that women are housekeepers and should be confined to the four walls of the house is perhaps a viable cause of gender disparity. They should not raise their voice regarding their fortune for the sake of the prestige of the family. In patriarchal society a lot of weightage is given to men.” The root cause of gender inequality in Indian society lies in its patriarchy system.
(Malkin, 2005) Women mostly have unequal access to health services and education, face glass ceiling at work place. Social customs that force or encourage girls into early child bearing and teenage marriages have dangerous and direct consequences for their health. There are much high levels of brutality and violence against women almost in all nations around the world. This could be among their families where it is treated a normal custom.
The one asset food insecurity is most intricately linked to, is land. In India, the patriarchal structure prevalent in a majority of the states, including Uttar Pradesh, does not see women as worthy land owners. The prevalent assumption is that male access to land within the household renders the household less susceptible to poverty by some average measure, and automatically provides this protection to all its members, especially the female members. Although the land laws have empowered women substantially in recent years, but even today most married women toil on a piece land that is in the name of their husband. Parents consider dowry (given to the groom’s family) or ‘Stridhan’ (given to the daughter herself) accorded during the daughter’s marriage as her rightful share of inheritance.
America is the land of opportunities...so they say. Throughout history, gender inequalities in the United States have always been prevalent. Surprisingly, many of these inequalities are still experienced today. Out of 144 countries , the World Economic Forum ranks America 45th on their Global Gender Gap Index.