Answer:
Women
face discrimination and oppression in various ways:
(i) Literacy Rate: The literacy rate among
women is only 54 percent compared with 76 per cent among men. Similarly, a
smaller per cent of the girl student go for higher studies. When we look at
school results, girls perform as well as boys do. But they drop out because
parents prefer to spend their resources on boys' education rather than spending
equally on their sons and daughters.
(ii) Unequal Wages: No wonder the
proportion of women among the highly paid jobs is still very small. On an
average an Indian woman works one hour more than an average man every day. Yet
much of her work is not paid and therefore often not valued.
(iii) Women are paid less: The Equal Wages
Act provides that equal wages should be paid for equal work. However, in almost
all areas of work, from sports and cinema, to factories and fields women are
paid less than men, even when both do exactly the same work.
(iv) Sex Ratio: In many parts of India
parents prefer to have sons and find ways to have the girl child aborted before
she is born. Such sex selective abortions led to a decline in child sex ratio
in the country to merely 914.
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