Nikita Gulati's List: Justice Project-Equality of men and woman

• Violence against women is very frequent in India. Statistics show that wives are  often the victim of domestic violence: in half the states, the percentages of  women that are beaten by their husbands vary between 10% and 20%.
• 6000 women are killed every year
• Selective abortions are more and more frequent in India
• 40 million Indian women were missing in 2001
• 80% to 85% of women do not have any freedom
• freedom of  dress only affect 50-60%
• several laws guarantee that women have access to property,

• In the South, women can sometimes inherit land and frequently have access to  money: between 70 and 80% according to surveys.

   

  
  

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• women are largely excluded from economic decision-making.
• low wages, poor working conditions and limited employment and professional  opportunities…[and] their unpaid work is not measured… and not valued in  national accounts.

• Discrimination against girls and women is widespread in India, in both Hindu and  Muslim communities.
• girls are fed less and taken to doctors less frequently, so mortality is  greater.
• boys are viewed as a source of income and prosperity
• girls are a financial burden,
• Death in childbirth is also unacceptably high:
• death rates are over 0.5% of births.
• 64% for males, but only 39% for women
• less than 25%.

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• August 26 is Women’s Equality Day
• Hundreds of “harassed” husbands, including IIT and IIM grads, engineers, doctors, lawyers and NRIs, will gather at Jantar Mantar on Sunday as part of the countrywide protest against dowry harassment and the more recent domestic violence laws.
• these laws have exposed them to harassment at the hands of their wives
• oman simply has to utter ‘dowry harassment’ and everybody she names is promptly put behind bar
• without any evidence, investigation or witness
• dowry harassment law
• Section 498A is the only provision under the dowry law that allows a woman to save her life.

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• Man and woman are both equal and both plays a vital role in the creation and development
• the struggle for legal equality has been one of the major concerns of the women’s movement all over the world
• In India, since long back, women were considered as an oppressed section of the society and they were neglected for centuries.
• I am uncompromising in the matter of women’s rights. The difference in sex and physical form denotes no difference in status. Woman is the complement of man, and not inferior
• The preamble of constitution promises to secure to all its citizens-
• constitution declares that the equality before the law and the equal protection of laws shall be available for all
• no discrimination against any citizen on the ground of sex
• guarantees equalities of opportunities for all citizens in matters of employment.
• the state can make any special provisions for women and children.
• right to an adequate means of livelihood
• protection of health and strength of workers –men, women, children
• equal pay for equal wok both men and women
• provides for just and humane conditions of work and maternity relief.
• the Constitution of India is working since more than fifty-seven years – the raising of the status of women to one of equality, freedom and dignity is still a question mark
• any unsuccessful marriage which results in such violence or divorce, it is always the woman, who is held responsible
• Cultural beliefs and traditions that discriminate against women may be officially discredited
• are governed by personal laws.
• women have fewer rights than that of man in corresponding situations
• women of the minority communities in India continue to have unequal legal rights
• In making biasness among the gender India has 10th rank out of 128 countries all over the world
• government has banned the pre-natal sex examination
• many rural people think that the girl child is burden on them
• Gender Inequality exists in most part of the world, from Japan to Morocco, or from Uzbekistan to United States of America
• women to have a much more difficult time getting the same benefits, wages, and job opportunities as their male counterparts.
• shaped historically by males.
• women receive less attention and health care than men do
• receive very much less support than boys
• mortality rates of females often exceed those of males in these countries.
• a preference is given for boys over girls
• Natality inequality
• parents wanting the newborn to be a boy rather than a girl.
• sex-selective abortion has become common in many countries.
• significant phenomenon in India
• women often face greater handicap than men.
• employment and occupation seems to be much more problematic for women than for men.
• ownership of property can also be very unequa
• harder for women to enter and flourish in commercial, economic and even some social activities.
• the family arrangements can be quite unequal in terms of sharing the burden of housework and child care
• men will naturally work outside the home, women could do it if and only if they could combine it with various inescapable and unequally shared household duties
• the opportunities of higher education may be far fewer for young women than for young men
• girls are obviously no more nutritionally deprived than boys are,
• the female-male ratio of the population under age 6 has fallen from 94.5 girls for hundred boys in 1991 to 92.7 girls per hundred boys in 2001
• no such decline in some parts of the country (most notably Kerala)
• Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Maharashtra, which are among the richer Indian States.
• sex-selective abortion might occur in India, the Indian Parliament banned some years ago the use of sex determination techniques for foetuses, except when it is a by-product of other
• the female life expectancy at birth is by now two years higher than male life expectancy in India
• this problem is mainly in work places
• many landmark and famous cases of gender discrimination in work place like that of Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan

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• Women  are 50% of the world's invisible population
• declined from 945 females to 927 for every 1000  males
• Malnutrition  among women is 36.3%
• prevalence of anemia among pregnant women is over  80%
• NGOs have initiated major nutrition intervention  programmes to improve the health status of women and children and bringing down  mortality.
• India  is home to the largest number of illiterate women in the world
• 39.19%, and more than 56% drop out before they reach mid level  in school
• total 22.27% female work participation, main workers contributed 16.03% and  marginal workers 6.24%
• 90% of the total marginal workers of the  country.
• NGOs focus attention  on poor women.
• only 13% of women inherited land from their fathers
• government schemes also allot land to male household heads
• physical, sexual, verbal, societal, emotional,  financial, intellectual or various forms of denial like denial of education, food,  health care, political rights, legal rights, information, and the like.
• 33% reservation for women in all elected political bodies

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• "Perception of women and children has changed over the time
• Even today the number of girl child is shrinking in some parts of India due to a new phenomenon of polyandry
• the issue is not so much uniformity of laws but gender equality within laws
• In the '80s and early '90s the climate was different. Legal action concerning women was looked at from a different perspective.
• equate women with a Goddess.
• ever deny doing anything for women
• for abused women to complain directly to judges instead of police,

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• next decade saw a surge in women wanting to advance just as men, making gender equality the most contested subject in the developed world.
• concept losing steam for the simple reason that gender inequality at home has remained unchanged,
• Women still shoulder the bulk of caring and housework at home
• forced to choose between caring for a family at home or maximising their career opportunities

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