2. "When you grow up, you can be whatever you
want to be." Little girls in the United States
hear this all the time, from their mothers to
teachers to "Sesame Street" characters.
Almost everywhere they go, they are
encouraged to believe that girls can be just as
smart, athletic, and successful as boys.
3. In India, discriminatory attitudes towards women
have existed for generations and affects women over
their lives. Although the constitution of India has
granted women equal rights but gender disparities
remains.
There are limited opportunities for women to access
resources such as education, health care services and
job opportunities to women as they decide the future
of India. Women are disadvantaged at work, and are
often underestimated for their capabilities. This has
prevented Indian women from achieving a higher
standard of living
4. Girls Household Servants: When a boy is born in
most developing countries, friends and relatives
exclaim congratulations. A son means insurance.
He will inherit his father's property and get a job to
help support the family. When a girl is born, the
reaction is very different. Some women weep
when they find out their baby is a girl because, to
them, a daughter is just another expense. Her
place is in the home, not in the world of men. In
some parts of India, it's traditional to greet a
family with a newborn girl by saying, "The servant
of your household has been born."
5. A girl can't help but feel inferior when everything
around her tells her that she is worth less than a boy.
Her identity is forged as soon as her family and society
limit her opportunities and declare her to be second-
rate.
A combination of extreme poverty and deep biases
against women creates a remorseless cycle of
discrimination that keeps girls in developing countries
from living up to their full potential. It also leaves
them vulnerable to severe physical and emotional
abuse. These "servants of the household" come to
accept that life will never be any different.
6. Education is not widely attained by the Indian women.
Although literacy rates are increasing, female literacy
rates lags behind the male literacy rate.
Literacy Rate Census of India 2001 and 2011
Comparison
Literacy for females stands at 65.46%, compared to
82.14% for males An underlying factor for such low
literacy rates are parent's perceptions that education
for girls are a waste of resources as their daughters
would eventually live with their husband's families
and they will not benefit directly from the education
investment
7.
8. Gender discrimination impedes growth; with
lower female-to-male workers ratios
significantly reducing total output in both
agricultural and non-agricultural sector . It is
also estimated that growth in India would
increase by 1.09% if its female labor-
participation rate were put on par with the
US
9. Since the social unrest of the 1960s, the federal
government has been actively involved in
preventing gender discrimination in
the workplace. The most important law
covering gender discrimination on the job is
the Civil Rights Act of 1964—specifically, Title
VII of that act, which strictly prohibits all forms
of discrimination on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in all
aspects of employment.
10. Written during a tumultuous period in
American history when many people
expected the federal government to right
social wrongs, the law was a monumental
piece of legislation that changed the
American employment landscape.
11. The law was passed after heated debate in both
the Senate and the House of Representatives. It
stated that it was unlawful for an employer to
"fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any
individual, or otherwise discriminate against any
individual with respect to his
compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges
or employment, because of such individual's
race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
12. The law covers
hiring, dismissals, compensation, and all
other aspects of employment, while also
covering actual employment opportunities
that are available. Examples of gender
discrimination or sexual harassment that
would fall under the scope of the act include:
13. An employee who alleges that his or her
manager only promotes male employees and
keeps females in entry-level positions. An
employee who alleges that a manager or
other person in
power tells jokes or makes statements that
are demeaning insulting, or offensive to
women.
14. Although socially women have been at a
disadvantage but the Indian laws highly favor
women. If a husband commits adultery he
will be jailed, but a women can not be jailed
for adultery and neither will be punished by
courts. In most child custody cases the
children are given to the wife. In most divorce
cases mostly the child is given to the mother.
15. Women can jail husband family for dowry
related cases by just filing an FIR. The law
IPC498A demands that the husband's family
be considered criminal by default unless
proven clean. According to one source, this
provision is much abused as only four percent
of the cases go to court and the final
conviction rate is as low as two percent
