Answer:
Women face disadvantages, discrimination and oppression
in various ways:
(i) Literacy Rate:
The literacy rate among women is only 54 percent compared with 76 per cent
among men. A smaller proportion of girls go for higher studies. If we look at
school results, girls always perform better than boys, but they drop out
because parents prefer to spend their resources for their son's education
rather than spending on their daughters.
(ii) Unequal
Wages: No wonder the proportion of women among the highly paid and valued
jobs is still very small. On an average, an Indian woman works one hour more
than an average man everyday. Yet much other
work is not paid and therefore often not valued.
(iii) Women
Are Paid Less: The Equal Wages Act provides that equal wages should be paid
for equal work. However in almost all areas of work, from sports and cinema to
factories and fields, women are paid less than men, even when both do exactly
the same work.
(iv) Sex
Ratio: In many parts of India parents prefer to have sons and find ways to
have the girl child aborted before she is born. Such sex selective abortions
led to a decline in child sex ratio in the country to merely 927.
There are reports
of various kinds of harassment, exploitation and violence against women. Urban
areas became particularly unsafe for women. They are not safe even within their
own home from beating, harassment and other forms of domestic violence.
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