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[4] [5] Gender inequality in India is a multifaceted issue that primarily concerns women, but also affects men. [6] When India's population is examined as a whole, women are at a disadvantage in several important ways. Although the constitution of India grants men and women equal rights, gender disparities remain.
Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature Laura R. Brueck The Branded Laxman Gaikwad: Broken Man: In Search Of Homeland Loknath Yashwant The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing M. Dasan Don’t Want Caste M.R. Renukumar: City, Slum and the Marginalised: Dalits and Muslims in Delhi Slums M.V. Bijulal
Feminism, the idea that men and women are equal is, however, discovered in Hinduism as the scriptures point to the difference between the soul and the flesh. The soul has no gender. Gender comes from the flesh. The ancient scriptures and texts seem to provide evidence that gender of these deities was not seen as binary but more like a spectrum.
The debates on the naming of this literature of protest persisted since 1960s. the term Dalit was first used by Dr. Ambedkar in 1928 in Bahiskrut Bharat. Although some Dalit scholars argued against writing autobiographies (as digging stench of past), some defended the importance of this genre by underlining its specific characteristics and its ...
At the same time, the existing gender equality indices do not take into account gender-based mandatory conscription in peacetime for men. [86] Military registration only for men in the United States is one of the examples that men's rights activist Warren Farrell cites to argue that discrimination against men is pervasive. He writes that if any ...
Gender inequality has remained the focus of the women's movement with specific emphasis on issues such as the Uniform Civil Code, Women's Reservation Bill, and sexual violence against women. [43] Women's organizations both informal and formal have developed at the rural, urban, national, and state levels in India.
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making, and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations, and needs equally, also regardless of gender. [1]