MP: Woman murders girl
A married woman stabbed a girl to death on the suspicion that she was having an affair with her husband in Jabalpur town of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday.
In India, we can see the disparity between males and females in every aspect of life.
Why we can’t celebrate every single day as Women’s Day? Why women and girls compromise for their daily lives and future? Why they still face discrimination? Yes, gender inequality is still a global problem despite ample national and international measures that have been taken to achieve women empowerment and equality, though the degree and causes vary throughout the world.
In India, we can see the disparity between males and females in every aspect of life, be it health, education, economy or politics. According to ‘Global Gender Gap Report’ released in 2013, India was ranked 101 among 135 countries polled to check the grade of male-female discrimination. No matter, its rank has improved in last few decades, but gender inequality still prevails, cursing the society as a whole.
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A number of factors in India can explain how much sons are still preferred over daughters. This is one of the significant causes of gender discrimination. They are given the exclusive rights to inherit the family properties. They are believed to have higher economic utility. In Indian society, there are many religious practices which can be performed only by sons.
Old age security also influences parents to prefer son and neglect a daughter. The parents of daughters have to lose them to their husband’s family when she grows up and they have to pay expensive dowry that is the payment in cash or some kind of gifts along with her at the time of marriage. This practice also generates a feeling of liability in parents for their daughters. In extreme cases, the discrimination takes the form of honour killing where families kill daughters and daughters-in-law who fail to fulfill gender expectation of their husband and in-laws. The inequality in genders can be seen in India everywhere:
Boys are still considered as an additional status for the family. Indian women themselves express a strong preference for having at least one son. Nutritional discrimination has also been seen in the country where sons are well fed and daughters are suffering from malnutrition. Both the genders should be treated equally for the heterogeneous growth of the country and in making headway to expand like developed ones. Democracy is the strongest tool to end this discrimination against women. Save a girl child, admire a woman and treat her equal in all respect.
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