The document discusses various aspects of marital laws and gender inequality, highlighting issues such as marital rape, dowry, and child marriage across different cultures. It emphasizes the need for education and awareness to empower women and combat gender-based disparities, including economic and social inequalities. Additionally, it addresses the prevalence of sexual violence and forced labor, shedding light on the rights violations faced by vulnerable populations.

2. Marital Laws
Marriage law or Marital Law refers to the legal requirements
that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary
considerably among countries. Marital laws include:
 MARITAL RAPE
 DOWRY
 CHILD MARRIAGE
 BRIDE PRICE

3.  Marital Rape refers to unwanted intercourse by a man with
his wife obtained by force, threat of force, or physical
violence, or when she is unable to give consent.
 It is a non-consensual act of violent perversion by a husband
against the wife where she is physically and sexually abused.
 In a country rife with misconceptions of rape, deeply
ingrained cultural and religious stereotypes, and changing
social values, globalization has to fast alter the letter of law.
MARITAL RAPE

4.  DOWRY : Dowry or Dahej is the payment in cash
or/and kind by the bride’s family to the
bridegroom’s family along with the giving away of
the bride (called Kanyadaan) in Indian marriage.
 Deaths due to non compliance of this ritual is very
common. The bridegroom’s family generally torture
mentally and physically the bride just to get a few
more bucks in their pockets.

5. GENDER INEQUALITY
“ We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons…
but few have the courage to raise our sons more like
our daughters..” Gender inquality includes:
Economic Inequality
Social Inequality
Education for Woman

6.  News of lesser pay grades for women in the industry or the big
difference among the scale of fees of actor and actress in the
cinemas often bring us to the fact that an economic disparity
exists between the two genders.
 Also the respect , the appreciation , job opportunities for the
two groups differ in great varsity.
 Many a times woman are not allowed to reach the top branches
of the industry.

7.  Education is the need of the hour for women to bridge the
gap between the two genders in the society.
 Women must be educated because the root problem of all is
that they are unaware of their rights and laws made to
provide justice to them.
 The rural areas of our country must be made aware of the
importance of quality education specially.
 Education will surely bring a ray of hope for them to be
socially and economically independent.

8.  Love for a male child is so much so that from the times
immemorial we are killing our daughters at birth or before
birth, and if, fortunately, she is not killed we find various
ways to discriminate against her throughout her life.
 Though our religious beliefs make women a goddess but we fail
to recognize her as a human being first; we worship goddesses
but we exploit girls.
 We are a society of people with double-standards as far as
our attitude towards women is concerned; our thoughts and
preaching are different than our actions.

9. Includes any one or more of the following unwelcome
acts or behavior (whether directly or by implication)
namely:-
 Physical contact and advances; or
 A demand or request for sexual favors; or
 Making sexually cultured remarks; or
 Showing pornography; or
 Any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal
conduct of sexual nature.

10.  Rape is any kind of sexual intercourse that is committed against a
person's will or is committed with physical force or with a threat
to hurt the victim or another person.
 It is also considered rape if the victim is intoxicated or
unconscious and unable to give consent.
 Rape and sexual assault are not about sexual desire--they are
about power and control
 While the definition of what constitute rape varies, you should
know that all unwanted sexual contact is sexual violence, and it's
wrong.
 Men are raped too. By far, most victims of sexual assault victims
are women, but this isn't always the case.

11.  Sexual Assaults conduct of a sexual or indecent nature toward
another person that is accompanied by actual or threatened physical
force or that induces fear, shame, or mental suffering.
 Up to 40% of rape victims develop sexually transmitted diseases.
 Sexual violence is a painful and psychologically devastating
experience for victims, and many victims suffer from post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD).
 A statutory offense ….. a crime to knowingly cause another person to
engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat

12. Prostitution is perpetuated in the commercial sex industry, which includes
street prostitution, massage brothels, escort services, outcall services, strip
clubs, lap dancing, phone sex, adult and child pornography, video and
Internet pornography, and prostitution tourism.
 Child Abuse
 Illegal Trafficking
 Human Rights Violation
 Bonded Labor

13. All work or service that is exacted from any person under the
menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not
offered himself voluntarily is BONDED LABOUR. In practice,
forced labour occurs when people are subjected to psychological
or physical coercion in order to perform some work which they
would otherwise not have freely chosen. Coercion is an essential
element of forced labour. It may take various forms.
 Assault
 False imprisonment
 Debt bondage
 Withholding or non-payment of wages (theft)
 Retention of identity documents (theft)
 Threat of denunciation to authorities (blackmail)
 Kidnapping or abduction (crimes in themselves)