Gender Discrimination In India

It has now been 69 years since India was declared a free nation. In this long duration, the country has definitely traversed huge distances in various sectors. We ourselves have witnessed the rise of the Indian influence across the world thanks to an ever-improving population- in both economic and humanitarian aspects. We have embraced technology, and the importance of education, and have developed ourselves to become a leading power in the global village. However, the country is yet to overcome pressing matters such as poverty, discrimination, which includes casteism, racism, and male-dominance, and corruption. Compared to the level in which the country started, we have improved and reached a number of milestones. But it seems as though this

As the youth and progressive influencers of the nation, it is our job to purify the nation of male chauvinism and display the strength and power of our women, not only to the nay-sayers of our own country, but of the rest of the world as well. India was built as a patriarchal society, as were most of the other countries. However, we often overlook the fact that our culture and history is filled to the brim with influential, strong-willed, and powerful women, and it is utterly infuriating to see ignorant and bigoted people, including women themselves, pray to female Goddesses and honour female heroes, only to denounce the power of the Indian woman and subject her to inexplicable oppression. Thousands of women had to demand to be allowed to join the freedom struggle after even our leaders, like Mahatma Gandhi himself, explained that Interestingly, religion and caste also play a large role in gender-based discrimination, by religious leaders often bend their laws to accommodate women as objects of pleasure, and simultaneously disallow them from basic human rights. For example, in the Manusmriti, regarded as the ‘Hindu code book’, women are considered to be of the same status as animals; both Hinduism and Islamism unabashedly promote the marriage of girl-children below the age of 10. We successfully eradicated sati and are on the verge of doing away with child marriage- this shows that it is definitely possible for us to change our views about women and welcome them into a society of equal opportunity and recognition. This not only ensures the fulfillment of basic human rights for our country’s women, but will also boost our