Status Of Girl Child Essay

We cannot attain socio-economic growth without considering the participation of women sector at national level. It is a paramount saying, “the status of women is the mirror of the character of country”. In India, the status of women has been witnessed by a vast range of ups and downs when evaluated since the Vedic period. During the pre-Vedic period girls were not bad omen for the family. They were treated at power with other members of the family and were educated properly. The time of the marriage of girl coincided with the age limit of the modern times. Moreover the girls were free to select their life companion through ‘swayambar’. The other fields like political, cultural and literacy activity were open for their participation. Their

The birth of a girl child is still not a welcome event. According to Altekar, ‘Atharva Veda’ contains charms and rituals to insure the birth of a male child. Thus we observe a long practice since ancient times to reject a female child even before the birth. If a female child is born she reared in atmosphere in which she is unable to makeup her psyche apt for all round development. She takes herself as a burden on her parents and she never develops the feeling of self respect and independent human being. A girl child is trained and reared on quietly different grounds from a male child and her physical and social development is effected by peculiarities associated with food, clothing, social contacts, games, sense of house hold and cultural ties. In earlier stages she is expected to share in the management of household responsibilities. Towards encouragement of personality traits, we expect them to develop submissiveness and a sense of surrender. More or less same pattern of behaviour they meet at school or college levels where they are trained in female like skills. At general parlance, public psyche inclines towards the understanding that a girl by nature is dependent, indecisive, shy, nervous and affiliative. If a girl is taken as a human being with these characteristics we cannot dream of a society with equal rights and status assigned to both male and female

Mainly women are contributing their prime share of life to the management of house holdings in respect of child bearing and rearing along with fulfilment of so many social obligations, for all this she has not been treated as an economic unit but as an investor. If women’s household work is taken into economic terminology, it would count to grant sum of money as savings which must be treated as handsome earnings. Although the laws are being made for improvement in the situation of women, but their implementation suffers delay or sometimes suffers non compliance. Apart from legislation, women should be given practical equality and opportunity in the field of employment and self oriented fields of industry. This assistance in economical field should be accredited with