Techkirit, iit kanpur. 28 States

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Discrimination in gender in our country has existed since its inception.
The disparity among the opposite genders has been a cause of social
conventions being followed in our country. The sole reason for this
biasing is the cultural construct of Indian society which includes the
Dowry system or preference for men over women in job opportunities.
Female feticide and sex selective abortion has been practised in our
country which reflects the ignorance and inequality of women in our
country. The current surveys show that girl child is more likely to be
aborted than boy child.

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The lack of education in female society of our country has been an
important factor. Literacy rate among the females is low compared to
males. An important parameter for this discrimination is that Indian
parents perceives the girl education as waste of money.
Increasing number of Rape cases and sexual harassment even in the
urban parts of our country gives strength to the point about low status
of women in our country .

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Discrimination against women also contributed to the difference in
wage where an average Indian women earn less than Indian men for
same occupation and of same level of qualification.
Equal rights are given to women by law of our country but they are
practiced in major part of our country where women still do not have
rights to obtain a share of parental property.

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Disgraceful acts and statements about women by some important
faces of our country has been some of reason why women feel
unsafe in our country
Adding to the points, the attitude of men and our society towards
women is one the important factor of Gender discrimination in
country.

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The Indian culture construct has system of dowry in which female
family has to pay a hefty price to male family for marrying their
daughter .
The dowry conflicts causes in suicides and murders or even setting
women on fire which is disguised as suicide or accident.
Survey shows that One women dies in every hour due to Dowry
conflicts.
Fig. Show the total number of Dowry deaths reported over the
years.
Year
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Dowry
Deaths
7618
8093
8172
8383
8391
8618

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Fig. Shows the Dowry deaths state wise over the year –

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Female feticide is an act of aborting a foetus because it is female. It
is one of the major problems we are facing in our country because
of its connection with other social convention our cultural construct.
Recent surveys shows that around 10 million female foetuses has
been aborted illegally.
Sex determination and sex selective abortion has grown into a
industry in the medical profession.

9. Fig. Shows state wise sex ratio-

10. 
Sexual harassment has been a major problem of India since
independence.
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Increasing number of rape cases in urban and rural areas is coming
out to be a serious threat to women protection.
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The estimates shows that a new rape case is reported in every 22
minutes in India.
Also, sources show that rape cases have doubled in last two decades
in India.
The national capital Delhi is reported with highest number of rape
cases recorded.

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Fig. Shows the Number of rape cases recorded in last decade-

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Girl education is one the important aspect in raising the low status
of women in our country.
However , in our country, the girl education is not considered
necessary since it is believed that Girl education is of no use, since
one day she has to move to her husband’s family.
There is a wide gender disparity in literacy rate in India with women
literacy rate 65.46% compared to that of 82.14% for men.

13. Fig. Show the literacy rate among women in some states of India-
State
Bihar Delhi Gujarat UP
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
Literacy
rate
63.8
Female
Literacy 53.3
rate
Mizor Rajas
am (%) than
(%)
Kerala
(%)
Maharas
htra
(%)
86.3
79.3
69.7 91.6
67.1
93.9
82.9
80.9
70.7
59.3 89.4
52.7
92.0
75.5