The New Freedom Struggle of India - Issues Concerning Women
THE NEW FREEDOM STRUGGLE OF INDIA: ISSUES CONCERNING WOMEN: - Shrikari.S.Rao*
Role of women in this modern world and India especially is a real paradox. The modern Indian women have honed their skills and jumped into a battlefield of life fighting against social restrictions, emotional ties, religious boundaries and cultural clutches. As women are gaining momentum to join the mainstream men, many complicated and totally unpredictable facets of impediments face her in every juncture of modern Indian women.
Our country is on high roads of success but still for a woman, her life is a battle for survival and dignity from her birth to death. Our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, “You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.”
Our society today reflects the Social Problems created By the society, For the society, Within the society. The causes of women’s rights and issues relate back to our patriarchal system. What started of a system to ensure order amongst people resulted in many negative branches that go against certain basic rights of a human being , particularly the other gender-Female.
PROBLEMS FACED BY WOMEN IN INDIA:
FEMALE FOETICIDE and FEMALE INFANTICIDE
NEGLECT DURING CHILDHOOD
EARLY MARRIAGE
DOWRY
ATROCITIES ON WOMEN- PROSTITUTION, RAPE, SATI, WIDOWS
FEMALE INFANTICIDE and FEMALE FOETICIDE:
Both are acts of Gendercide, which is the deliberate and usually brutal killing of a person or persons based solely on their gender, Female in this case.
FEMALE INFANTICIDE:
It is a deliberate and intentional act of killing a female child within one year of its birth either directly by using poisonous organic and inorganic chemicals. Families, especially impoverished ones, kill their baby girls as a means not only to spare them a life of misery and starvation, but also to save their families from further
Role of women in this modern world and India especially is a real paradox. The modern Indian women have honed their skills and jumped into a battlefield of life fighting against social restrictions, emotional ties, religious boundaries and cultural clutches. As women are gaining momentum to join the mainstream men, many complicated and totally unpredictable facets of impediments face her in every juncture of modern Indian women.
Our country is on high roads of success but still for a woman, her life is a battle for survival and dignity from her birth to death. Our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, “You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.”
Our society today reflects the Social Problems created By the society, For the society, Within the society. The causes of women’s rights and issues relate back to our patriarchal system. What started of a system to ensure order amongst people resulted in many negative branches that go against certain basic rights of a human being , particularly the other gender-Female.
PROBLEMS FACED BY WOMEN IN INDIA:
FEMALE FOETICIDE and FEMALE INFANTICIDE
NEGLECT DURING CHILDHOOD
EARLY MARRIAGE
DOWRY
ATROCITIES ON WOMEN- PROSTITUTION, RAPE, SATI, WIDOWS
FEMALE INFANTICIDE and FEMALE FOETICIDE:
Both are acts of Gendercide, which is the deliberate and usually brutal killing of a person or persons based solely on their gender, Female in this case.
FEMALE INFANTICIDE:
It is a deliberate and intentional act of killing a female child within one year of its birth either directly by using poisonous organic and inorganic chemicals. Families, especially impoverished ones, kill their baby girls as a means not only to spare them a life of misery and starvation, but also to save their families from further
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