Presented by Mr. Biswadip MocharySerampore College, Theology

DepartmentSerampore, Hooghly, West Bengal

Gender Issues in India

AbortionFemale infanticideChild laborChild MarriageTraffickingDowryDomestic ViolencePurdah SystemWidow ExploitationSati System

Contents of the Presentation

Patriarchal societyProperty rights only for sons,

The Big Reason

Sex ratio decline in IndiaCorrection between development and sex ration

More than 75% labor force in agriculture in women folk

Almost 100% kitchen work, child care and household work is taken care of exclusively by women.

World without Women

Historical,SocialReligiousEconomic

Causes of gender discrimination, exploitation of women both at home and work place, all kinds of injustice women etc.

So………..

Every year 2 out of every 100 women aged 15-44 have an abortion; nearly 50% of them have had at least previous abortion and 55% have had a previous birth.

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women

In China and India, some women chose to terminate their pregnancies when they expecting daughter but caries their pregnancies to term when expecting sons.

Female InfanticideEveryday 25o girls die in Punjab before they born

Under the hot sunny day 10 years old children working morning to till night whole week, trafficked by the family.

Child labour

The Immoral traffic act was passed in 1956, however many cases of trafficking of young girls and women have seen reported. These women are forced by either Prostitution or child labor.

Traficking

AbortionFemale InfanticideDudhpityChild LaborChild MarriageTraffickingDomestic ViolencePurdah SystemWidow ExploitationSati System

Flow of Presentation

An age Old Patriarchal society in India…..Property rights only for sons, son as the status symbol…

Baap ko kandhe dene wale….Ladki paraye ghar ki dhan, aur Ladki ghar ki Izzat hote hai

The Big Reason….

Why only Sita had to give Agni Pariksha and not Lord Rama?

Why do only the sisters, daughters, mothers and the wives have to do fasting for the good of their fellow? men and not the other way round?

Why dos the Dulha walk ahead of Dulhan during the marriage Phera?

Why can’t boys bring dowry like girls do?Why can’t girl inherit the property of her father?

Some question…???

Sex ratio decline in IndiaCorrelation between development and sex ratio

78% of labour force in agriculture in women folk

Almost 100% kitchen work, child care and household work is taken care of exclusively by women.

Think of the World without women

A system followed in ancient times in India where a girl child was killed by drowning her in Milk

Dudhpiti System

The women and girls used in prostitution

may be exploited 10-40 times a night,

sometime keeping as little as 20 ruppes per encounter…..

Child MarriageEarlier a child

marriages were highly prelevent in India. The young girls would

live with their parents till they

reached puberty. They were married to the person much elder to

them