Question
Mention any three aspects of life in which women are discriminated in Indian society.
Solution
The aspects are:
(1) For education, lesser resources are spent by parents on girl child. Thus, literacy among women is 54 per cent compared to 76 per cent among men. Similarly, a small proportion of girl students go for higher studies.
(2) The proportion of women among the highly paid and valuable jobs is still very small. Yet much of her work is not paid and, therefore, often not valued. On an average, an Indian women work one hour more than an average man every day.
(3) 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 abortion led to a decline in child sex ratio.
