Women in contemporary India face various problems that vary in form and intensity across different parts of the country. These problems include gender discrimination affecting women's nutrition, education, health, and career opportunities; high rates of violence including kidnapping, rape, and dowry deaths; unemployment and exploitation of women in the workplace; unequal access to education for girls; selective abortion and female infanticide; sexual harassment; the dowry system; child marriages; inadequate nutrition for girls compared to boys; low status of widows; unequal pay for equal work; and denial of property rights to women according to some family and religious traditions.

1. PROBLEMS OF
WOMEN IN
CONTEMPORARY
INDIA

2. Women in contemporary
India face various problems.
Do not exist as such in all the
parts of India. The form, the
intensity of the problem
varies from place to place but
it occurs everywhere.

3. GENDER DISCRIMINATION
Women are
considered as
weaker section of
the society than
men. It affects
women in the areas
like nutrition,
education, health,
care, decline of
female population,
job, public life, etc.

4. VIOLENCE
According to the report ,
women is getting
kidnapped at every 44
minutes, raped at every
47minutes, 17 dowry
deaths every day, etc.
They are facing violence
within the family as well as
outside the family

5. Women face difficulties
in searching their
suitable work. They are
exploited and harassed
in the work place.
UNEMPLOYMENT

6. UNEQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Denying education to girl
child is another in our
country.

7. SELECTIVE ABORTION AND FEMALE INFENTICIDE
Abortion of female fetus is performed in
the womb of the mother after the fetal
sex determination.

8. SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Most of the time it happen
by the family members,
relatives, higher officials,
and even by unknown
persons etc.

9. DOWRY SYSTEM
It prevails mostly in
women of low or
middle class family.
Women are ill- treated,
man- handled,
disrespected, tortured
and suffer due to less
dowry that they bring
to the husband's home

10. Even today early marriage of the
girls is highly practiced in the rural
India
CHILD MARRIAGES

11. This happens to the women
and children belonging to
poor and lower middle
class families. It is an
unsaid rule that while the
male siblings are provided
with milk, fruits and eggs,
the girls has to do with the
regular rice and lentil.
INADEQUATE NUTRITION

12. STATUS OF WIDOWS
In some places of India
widows are considered as
worthless even today.

13. EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK
In unrecognized sector, this is
still prevailing especially in
manual labor.

14. Even though law demands
Property rights to women, most
families and some religions deny
giving properties for females.
PROPERTY
RIGHTS

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