When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Article 15 of the Constitution of India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_15_of_the...

    The Supreme Court has interpreted 'sex' as including both 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' which has extended the protection of Article 15 to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender persons. [20] [9] Like the other protected grounds, 'place of birth' has also been a source of some ambiguity.

  3. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCERT_textbook_controversies

    NCERT's director Hrushikesh Senapaty highlighted that students must have time to engage outdoor. The syllabus of Social Sciences, which covers History, Geography, Political Science, and Economics, had 24 chapters in Class IX as compared to 15 each in Science and Mathematics.

  4. Periyar and women's rights - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periyar_and_women's_rights

    Periyar has explained that it is extremely cruel on the part of the Hindu brothers to witness the gradual destruction suffered by one half of their society, without taking any action. This apart, men and women are both human beings. The difference in physical features will not change the human quality.

  5. Sociology of gender - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_gender

    Western culture creates cultural gender roles based on the meanings of gender and cultural practices. Western culture has clear distinctions among sex and gender, where sex is the biological differences and gender is the social construction. However, sex still influences how society perceives a certain gender. [9]

  6. Periyar and the eradication of caste - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periyar_and_the...

    Through Periyar's spirit of social service, Kamaraj introduced the free mid-day meal scheme for school children and later granted free books and free clothes to school children. When Kalaignar Karunanidhi was Chief Minister in 1969, he extended free education up to the pre-university class. As a result of Periyar's devoted service for the cause ...

  7. Social construction of gender - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_construction_of_gender

    Gender is used as a means of describing the distinction between the biological sex and socialized aspects of femininity and masculinity. [9] According to West and Zimmerman, gender is not a personal trait; it is "an emergent feature of social situations: both as an outcome of and a rationale for various social arrangements, and as a means of legitimating one of the most fundamental divisions ...

  8. Gender inequality in India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_India

    Gender inequality has been a historic worldwide phenomena, not a human invention and based on gender assumptions. [115] It is linked to kinship rules rooted in cultures and gender norms that organizes human social life, human relations, as well as promotes subordination of women in a form of social strata. [ 115 ]

  9. Gender system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_system

    Gender systems are the social structures that establish the number of genders and their associated gender roles in every society. A gender role is "everything that a person says and does to indicate to others or to the self the degree that one is either male, female, or androgynous. This includes but is not limited to sexual and erotic arousal ...