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Gender Equality, Discrimination, and Issues: Contemporary Challenges

   

Added on  2024-01-18

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Gender Equality, Gender
Discrimination, Gender Issues:
Contemporary Challenges
Prepared by
Dr. Khwairakpam Sharmila
Assistant Professor
Dept. of HDFS

Gender Equality
 The view that both men and women should receive equal treatment and
not be discriminated against based on their gender.
 Also known as sex equality , gender equalitarianism, sexual equality or
equality of the genders.
 The process of being fair to women and men.
 Requires equal enjoyment by women and men of socially valued- goods,
opportunities, resources and rewards.
 It doesn’t mean men and women being the same.

Cont…..

Factors
responsible
Illiteracy
Child
marriage
Social evil
Job
segration
Unemployment
Lack of
bodily
autonomy
Discriminatio
n against the
girls child
Lack of
legal
protection
Poor
medical
care
Factors responsible
for Gender In-
equality

Factors responsible for gender inequality
Illiteracy
Illiteracy is one of the factors responsible for gender inequality. According to 2011 census
of India., the literacy level in India is 74.04% in which the male literacy level is 82.14%
and female literacy level is only 65.46%.
Child Marriage
Children specially the girls are married at a very young age. This proves fatal for their
overall development and have a negative impact on their health, too.
Social evils
Social evils like dowry system, sati system, are also responsible for the low status of
women.
Discrimination against the girl child
The girl child is not treated properly in the family. People still prefer the birth of a boy
rather than a girl. The girl child is basically trained for household work only. Even today,
female infanticide is a common social evil.

Cont.
Lack of employment equality
The current global labor force participation rate for women is close to 49%. For men, it’s
75%. That’s a difference of 26 percentage points, with some regions facing a gap of more
than 50 percentage points.
Job segregation
One of the causes for gender inequality within employment is the division of jobs. In most
societies, there’s an inherent belief that men are simply better equipped to handle certain
jobs. Most of the time, those are the jobs that pay the best. This discrimination results in
lower income for women.
Lack of legal protections
In many countries, there’s also a lack of legal protections against harassment in the
workplace, at school, and in public. These places become unsafe and without protection,
women frequently have to make decisions that compromise and limit their goals.

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