HN-1 Lecture 3: gender religion and caste
8 Dec 2022
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A system in which all work inside the home is either done by the women of the family, or organised by them through the domestic helpers. Feminist movements: various movements which are aimed at ensuring equal rights for women are called feminist movement. Political expression of gender question helped a lot to improve women"s role in public life. Although the indian society is still a patriarchal society, yet women are now working in many fields. Women face disadvantage, discrimination and oppression in various ways: the literacy rate among women is only 54 per cent compared with 76 per cent among men, the percentage of women in highly paid jobs is still very small. At many workplaces, women are paid less than men for the same job. An indian woman usually works more hour than an average man on a daily basis: many indian parents prefer to have a male child.
