The document summarizes some of the social problems faced by women in India. It discusses that while India has seen significant progress, women still face many challenges from birth until death. Some of the key problems mentioned are increasing crimes against women like rape and domestic violence, female feticide due to preference for male children, discrimination against girls in terms of access to food, education and career opportunities, health issues faced by women, practices of child marriage and dowry, and difficulties faced by working women in balancing their professional and domestic responsibilities. The document also outlines some legal protections and rights that have been established for women after independence.

1. Social Problems:

2. Our first prime minister , Jawaharlal
Nehru said , “ you can tell the
condition of nation by looking at the
status of its WOMEN”.

3. Condition of women in India
Our country is on
high roads of success
, but still for a
women her life is a
battle for survival
and dignity from her
birth to death.

4. It increases the morale, status, selfconfidence, individuality, personality, self-
respect, talent, capacity and efficiency among women.
Women are regarded with high respect in our Indian society.
Earlier women too faced certain problems like child marriages,
practice of Sati, exploitation of widows, Devadasi system, Pardah
system, etc. which are almost disappeared now with technological
advancements, universalisation of education, socio-political
movements, modernisation and similar social developments
changed the approach of people towards women to a certain
extent.
Even rights , responsibilities and more opportunities for women to experience
and exposed for varied environment.

5. Problems Faced
 Increasing crime against women
 Female abortion
 Female childrens are becoming victim of
discrimination
 Health problems for women
 Child Marriage
 Dowry
 Problems of Working Women

6. Crimes such as violence against women, rape, molestation, dowry
harassment, wife battering, kidnapping, selling the women to brothel
houses, forcible embracement, prostitution and religious conversion,
cheating, sexual abuse and harassments, eve teasing and women
abuse.Female genital mutilation and
exploitation of women were
observed in our modern India.
Increasing Crimes Against Women

7. Female abortion
While goddess are welcomed with open arms , our doors are
shut tight for girl child.
 It is a very common scenario in almost all
villages.
 It has become tradition for some families to
have male children only.
 Our sec ratio is : 923 females per 1000 males

8. Female Children are Becoming
Victims of Discrimination
Male children were preferred by Indian society.
If female foetus is observed, they even go to the extent such as
female foeticide, female negligence and discrimination related to the
matters like food, dress, health, education, domestic work and
occupational avenues are narrower.

9. Health Problems for Women
Women belong to high-risk group and are more prone
for infections and other diseases. Because of more
responsibilities there is a chance for neglecting their
own health, it may be due to no free time, non-
availability of medical facilities, lack of
transportation facilities, lame
excuses,enjoys dependency role, etc.

10. Child Marriage
 Getting married before attaining full
mental and physical maturity.
 In rural area 70% of girls are married
before they are 18 .
 And nearly 56% of married girls bear
children before they are 19.

11. Dowry
Dowry is defined as the property , which a man receives
from his wife or her family at the time of marriage .
It is regulated by factors like :
Boy’s service and salary
Economis status
Educational qualification

12. Problms of Working women
Now-a-days women are equally competing with men; increased education
status makes them to occupy special roles and positions in almost all fields.
The illiterate women also coming forward to do the jobs in factories, textiles,
small scale industries, building construction purposes as labourers , agriculture
Fields.
Women have to fulfill dual responsibilities if they are employed. A
working woman has to adjust herself for both domestic and
working environment.

13. Few examples that can enumerate problems of
women in employment:
1. Related to family (Family disorganisation) : Unable to
balance between household responsibility and working
responsibilities.
2. Stress and personal care: Women have to adjust for both family
and official activities, due to this they may experience severe
stress and several times they won’t have sufficient time to think
about personal issues

14. 3. Resistance to misconduct of seniors and officers: In the male
dominant society, women are more prone for verbal and sometimes
physical harassment; which makes to be discomfort and may lead
to change or stop working.
4. Job insecurity: Many of the women who are working in different
fields are not having enough job security in spite of their education,
skill, knowledge, hard work, and punctuality.
6. Low wages: Women who are working in rural areas like agricultural,
small-scale industries will be paid very low wages and exploited to do
more work for less pay.

16. Womens in the 21st century
are thought to have :
Freedom of Speech
Freedom to Vote
Freedom of Choice
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Fear
Freedom of Torture
Freedom of Enslavement

17. Women empowerment post - independence
After independence , women in the 1970s Challenged the
inequalities and broke many stereotypes.

18. A few examples of women empowerment are:
Sarojini Naidu (Nightingale of india) ,
Chandramukhi Basu ( one of the first two
Female graduates in British india ),
Gunjan Saxena ( first womenIAF to go to war ),
Indira Gandhi ( first women PM of India ) etc.

19. The Secretory , Ministry of Defence v.
Babita Puniya (2020)
In this case, the supreme court granted a permanent
commission to the women in the Indian Armed forces till
retirement whereas : in short servive commission , the army
permits 10 year service with an option of a 4 year extension.
Under Agnipath, Agniveer recruits will serve for 4 years.
After this case , women now are eligible for ranks , benefits ,
pension and other schemes in the forces provided to the male
officers .

20. Employees state Insurance Act ( 1948 )
Plantation Labour Act ( 1951 )
Bonded Labour System ( Abolition ) Act ( 1976 )
Legal Practitioners ( Women ) Act ( 1923 )
Indian Succession Act ( 1925 )
Our legislations safeguarding women’s
rights :
Indian Divorce Act ( 1869 )
Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act ( 1869 )
Special Marriage Act ( 1954 )
Foreign Marriage Act ( 1969 )
Indian Evidence Act ( 1872 )

22. “I am she
Who waits through the night.
I am she
Who equals the strength
Of his light.”

23. Thank
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