Gender inequality in India
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- Created on: 15-03-23 14:28
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- Women's rights in India
- Gender inequality issues
- 112th out of 153 in the Global Gender Gap Index
- 129th out of 189 in the UN's Gender Inequality Index
- Violence against women
- 28.7% of women experience gender violence
- Deeply rooted patriarchal society
- Cruelty by husband and his relatives (31.9%)
- Over 90 rapes a day
- Assault on women (27.6%)
- Modern slavery
- 14.3 million victims in India, mainly women and girls
- Includes trafficking for sexual exploitation
- 14.3 million victims in India, mainly women and girls
- Property ownership
- women's rights in ownership of land and property are very limited
- Employment opportunities
- Even women with full secondary of tertiary education don't enter the workforce
- Makes it hard not to conform to social norms and stay at home
- Expected to stay at home raising kids
- Even women with full secondary of tertiary education don't enter the workforce
- Discrimination in the workplace
- Maternity benefits are denied
- Most women do not return to work after childbirth
- 25% of married women don't return after
- Only 13.8% of board member in companies are women
- Political participation
- Lack of women in government and any level
- Only 11.4% of seats held are women
- Lack of women in government and any level
- Access to healthcare
- Extreme gender discrimination against women in access to healthcare
- Access to education
- Families require girls to contribute to housework therefore they don't attend school despite enrolment in primary schools increasing
- They can the marry off their child with the skills of a housewife
- Only 70% of girls attended primary school, less at secondary school
- Families require girls to contribute to housework therefore they don't attend school despite enrolment in primary schools increasing
- Consequenceof inequality issues
- Women have been subject to murder or disfigurement when a dowry payment cannot be met
- Women are expected to pay their husbands family to marry
- 7166 dowry related deaths in 2018
- Women can be subject to honour killing by their own family if they refuse their arranged marriage
- Many women are beaten in the home and subject to sexual violence.
- Women's health is at rick during and after pregnancy causing a high MMR 113/100,000
- High infant mortality rate (IMR) 39.1 under age 1 per 1000 live births
- Sex-selective abortions have occurred with the desire for male offspring
- Women have been subject to murder or disfigurement when a dowry payment cannot be met
- Evidence of changing norms
- Laws and treaties
- Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
- Dowry Prohibition Act, 2008
- Still dowry payments being made, 7166 dowry related deaths in 2018
- Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
- 52% of women believe it is right for a man to beat their wife still
- Women Safety Division (within Indian Ministry)
- Strengthening law enforcement to create more accurate reporting of crimes
- Large companies provide child-care facilites
- Laws and treaties
- Gender inequality issues
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