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y  THE CONSTITUTION of India assures equality of genders. This is one of the fundamental rights. But a

majority of people are today dying hard to change these fundamental rights to fundamental wrongs. 

y  There are so many notable Indian women in various fields. India has the worlds largest number of 

professionally qualified women. But there is still so much of negativity against them. India has more

female doctors, scientists and professors than the United States. There has been a great fuss about

Womens Bill in India. This refers to their dynamic political involvement. There are about 6,797,946,050

people in the world. As per World Bank, World Development Indicators, India has 1,139,964,932 population

as of 2008, out of which around 45 per cent (nearly half are women, ie, around eight per cent of worlds

total population). Still they are the most disadvantaged as against their counterparts in other

developmental countries.

In India, the problem of violence against women is a result of a long-standing power imbalance between men and

women. Female infanticide is very common in some notable states in India because there is a preference

for sons because male children preserve the family ancestry. The education of sons is also considered

much more important than daughters. Within the household, there even exists gender favoritism which

influences intra-household distribution of food. 

y  Because women and girls are given less food than men, malnutrition among adolescent girls and women

is common in India. Due to lower educational levels, a woman has a much less possibility to earn. Dowry is

generally demanded from the husbands side before or after marriage. Newly married women become

the subject to ill treatment. Women are also considered in terms of their virginity, as chastity is

considered as a great virtue. But, in case of men, nobody ever thinks of their virginity status. In terms of 

family planning, women have been used as the subjects of experiments. When women resist against their

exploitation, many try to silence them.

All over history and in many countries, including India, gender inequality was omnipresent (apart from

God) in a male-dominated culture. Atrocities and favoritism are the two important problems, which the

Indian women still confront in the modern India. The orthodox people of India always perceive that the

birth of women is mainly focused inside the four walls of a house in a family, like kitchen work and

nurturing the babies. They have been considered as the object of sexual gratification apart from being

treated inferior to the men in all possible areas. Some of the main forms of inhumanities and prejudiced

mindsets against the women are female feticide, sati path, pariah path, child marriage, dowry system, etc.

After 63 years of independence, Indian women are still one of the most powerless, marginalised and

threatened sections of Indian society. India has the lowest sex ratio in the world. Female literacy is only 54

per cent as against 75 per cent of male literacy. Women's delegacy in the Indian parliament and in the

state legislatives has never been above 10 per cent. Only around three per cent women are

administrators and managers, 21 per cent are professional and the technical workers all of whom

collectively earn 25 per cent of the shared income. The gender equality is not a simple matter. It requires

the change in attitudes of the husband, in-laws and society as a whole to the women.  

y  The foremost priority should be devoted to the women education, which is the root-level problem. The

fight for gender equality will initially be slow, painful and lengthy, as the phenomenal modification cant

be brought in a night. This very struggle has to be banged on irrespective of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, etc, and

every caste, class, race, religion should take part in this independence struggle to make a refined world

where all can have a peaceful coexistence.

y  Womenindividually or in groups, organisations, non-government organisations (NGOs) should come

forward and take active, befitting steps to build strong morale in their families. They should also raise

their voice against being filmed for any kind of adult scenes in media and also avert from wearing much-

Westernized dresses. This will definitely impose a good sense of morale in their off springs and will build

up an exemplary family, thus a model society, state and country. 

y  On World Womens Day (March 8) every year, women deserve more than just a days appreciation and

forgetting them. In many different feasible ways, we can give more than what women need as our

mothers, daughters, sisters, wives. This aspect needs nation-wide debates to facilitate our living

conditions. 

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