Gender Discrimination Issue in Indian Community
Why do you decide to use this method?
The essay presents detailed information about the gender discrimination issues in India. For writing this essay, a secondary research method is used in which different sources such as articles, online links and journals etc. are used to develop an understanding of the issue related community.
Based on that, the study would find the causes of such issues and ways or strategies to reduce or eliminate these types of practices. Thus, this essay gives a brief picture of the gender discrimination issue in India and its impact on the community interest. The reason for decided to use the secondary data method collection is because gaining deep knowledge about the community issues, the data is sourced with the help of different articles, newspaper editions, online links etc (Gul et al., 2011).
Besides that, the main reason for using the secondary method sources is that it helps in providing detailed information about the subject matter. That’s why the second method is used in this paper.
Who presented the issue?
Different authors are considered as a presenter for the issues as for this study various articles and editors are used so in that context of the authors, the researcher is the one who presents the gender discrimination issues in a relevant manner.
How it was defined?
The issue is defined by the different presenters in different manners. In all the above mention articles, the issue related to gender discrimination in India is defined in a systematic and clear manner. The issue which becomes a concern for the community interest is the increasing gender discrimination in the Indian society/community.
However, it is fact that still gender disparity largely exists in the country in India in each sector whether it is health, education, politics and career choices etc. In a similar manner, Gender Discrimination in India (2017) mentioned the gender issues in their article which community faced in India and according to the Global gender gap report; gender discrimination is visible in each sector of India.
Likewise, there is inequality in girls’ education due to the poor mentality of the people, especially in rural regions. The literacy level of females in India is 65.46% compared to males at 82.14%. There is also very little liberty is given to the women’s/ girls in regards to choosing their careers.
In the article of Batra & Relo (2017), it is defined that gender inequality issues in the community occur in the form of socially constructed predefined gender roles. It defines the reasons for discrimination among boys and girls. Likewise, it starts from the deep cultural and historic roots due to which still women’s are not allowed to perform many activities in their daily household work or in the workplace. This is also considered a growing concern for society and community development.
According to Indian parenting (2017), the issue of gender business emerges from the child upbringing. For instance, if a boy child is a little shy then the community considered him as a sissy (coward) while is girl child is an extrovert then she is considered a tomboy. So, inequality is developed from the individual mindset or perception.
Likewise, articles in the starting clearly mention the issue of gender discrimination and then defines its impact on the Indian community. At the same time, the authors also present the strategies which are government and NGOs initiated to eliminate the issue of gender inequality.
Each author in their articles also defines the examples by giving the statics. However, in one of the articles, it is defined that there is only 65.46% of girls are educated as compared to males 82.14% (IIFL, 2016). Thus, such a presentation gives clear knowledge to the reader regarding the subject matter. It can be stated that issues are presented in the article in an organised way that clearly indicates the current issue of community to the audiences.
Whose interest is/are affected by the issues?
The majority of society and the economy are affected by the issue of gender discrimination in India. It is also found that the growth and development of India are largely influenced by inequality. Due to that, government, NGOs has taken initiatives to protect the interest of women’s through developing various policies and schemes in concern to women’s.
However, the government for the women’s in the workplace creates acts such fair compensation act and the gender equality Act. Moreover, government to support girl education, start campaigns and promote girl education with the Beti Bachao, BetiPadhao campaign. Therefore through such ways, they protect the interest of the community and result in economic growth.
On the flip side, the newspaper article of Jaishankar (2013) depicted that India has compensated huge costs due to discrimination and it is in the form of reducing economic growth by 4 % annually over the past 10 years. However, less literacy rate and less growing opportunity for women’s in the manufacturing sector makes a deep impact on the growth of India.
It is identified from the website of IIFL (2016) that there are more than 72% of women in the community feel that gender biases are still in the workplace. It is reflecting in the areas of compensation, job position. Likewise, it is fact that women are always offered less pay compared to the male gender and at the same time, management always prefers to provide high positions to the male member. Thus, such practices clearly raising the concern of gender inequality in the community.
The underlying cause of the issues
From the research of Sharma (2015), it is identified that patriarchal society is the major issue for the community as patriarchy is the system which is social structure and practices in which the male gender has dominated, oppose and exploit women’s. Thus, exploiting women is a traditional cultural phenomenon in India. It is the root cause of bringing gender inequality in Indian society.
Patriarchal is the system or practice in which males member dominates, exploit the females. As per this system, women’s is considered as custody for their fathers when they are a girl child and after marriage, they are in the custody of their husband (Sharma, 2015). Thus customs of the society didn’t allow the women’s to live their own life.
Furthermore, Save the Children (2016) illustrated gender discrimination is the reality in India and the human old traditions and culture is the key driver of generation of inequality. It is because old culture guides the individual mindset and their actions.
In addition to this, human perception is also the reason for the growing gender inequality in India. It occurs with the differences in socially constructed gender roles. However, since childhood parents make their children’s learn about the meaning of masculine and feminine. As they make their boy learn not to behave like a sissy (coward).
Thus such activities develop the mindset or perception of the individual in a particular way. Therefore, these are the key reason which is the root cause of gender discrimination in India. In the newspaper edition of Sharma (2017), it is mentioned that for achieving gender quality in India, it is required to weigh what should be removed and what should be addressed to promote the equal rights of women in India.
It means there are no equal rights for women in the society in Indian society causing gender discrimination. In such a case, affirmative action needs to be taken as per the newspaper edition and in this, affirmative action policy should be used to develop equality among the gender. In regards to this, the government has taken several initiatives like Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao etc.
On the other side, Segran (2010) stated that there are various programs developed under the UNDP in order to help rural women’s regarding feed, clothe and shelter their families. But still, there is more need for a holistic approach to address such issues in the community. It can be done by encouraging the women’s to take initiative for themselves through involving with NGOs and contributing to nations.
It is also required to promote girls education especially in the rural part of India because gender inequality is till now highly deep-rooted in the village area. At the same time, for the urban women’s, management of the workplace should revise their policy and bring some new norms that would benefit the women’s. Thus, these all initiatives will be also only possible with government support so in this regard government policies is quite vital for bringing equality in the nation.
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that the Indian community is facing the issue of gender discrimination and it also affects economic growth. The major causes of this issue are the human perception, old traditional culture and the patriarchal practices of the society. Thus, to eliminate such activities, various schemes and programs are initiated by the government and NGOs.
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