1.Discrimination is usually referred as a negative term.
2.Discrimination can be defined as restricting, degrading or excluding an individual or a group or a community or a religion from the society.
3.Discrimination is usually practiced by people who are conservative in their ideology or people who treat themselves as superior to other individuals.
4.Discrimination is of many forms some of them are:
a)Religious discrimination
b)Caste discrimination
c)Gender discrimination or sexism
5.In India all forms of discrimination are being practiced, since ages.
6.One of the major discrimination is discrimination based on gender.
7.Gender discrimination is a discrimination between men and women.
8.Gender discrimination has its roots in the different religions, practiced across the world.
9.Practically all religions are male dominated,with women being relegated to a much lower level than men.
10.Some forms of gender discrimination preached by religions are:
a)Women is regarded as unclean when she menstruates,is treated as untouchable and is not allowed in places like temples, kitchens.
b)She becomes untouchable after childbirth until she undergoes a ritual cleansing.
c)she is described as a temptress or a whore in the Hindu scriptures.
d)She has to undergo fasting for the well-being of her husband.
e)She has to cover herself from head to foot in order not to weaken the man’s purity of resolve, which is practiced in Islam.
f)She is supposed to have been created by God from Adam’s rib,as an afterthought, and God is a man (as preached in Islam)
g)She is being burnt at the stake accused of being witches to honor killings that still continue in places like India, Pakistan, and other Islamic countries.
11.Women are discriminated at workplace as they are being paid less when compared to their male counterparts for the same work.
12.The most practical example can be seen in the game of tennis. Female players are awarded with less cash price on winning, when compared to male players.
13.Discrimination against females is a stark reality that affects large portions of the society across the develpoing countries.
14.some forms of gender discrimination in developing countries are:
a)Young girls are being sold into the sex-trafficking trade,
b)They are being raped
c)They are subjected to child abuse,
d)Women are forced to sex-selective abortion,
e)They are subjected to infanticide, to neglect, to dowry deaths and honor killings.
15.Gender discrimination in USA:
a)A stark and recent example of sexism is Hillary Clinton being judged according to the clothes she wears and her looks, thereby belittling what she stands for intellectually, as she makes a bid for the President’s office in the U.S.
b)Despite the emancipation of women in the this country, there has not been a single
woman president to this date.
16.Some of the acts passed by Indian constitution to prevent gender discrimination are:
a)In 1987, The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act was passed to prohibit indecent representation of women through advertisements or in publications, writings, paintings, figures or in any other manner.
b)In 1961, the Government of India passed the Dowry Prohibition Act,[40] making the dowry demands in wedding arrangements illegal.
c)In 1985, the Dowry Prohibition (maintenance of lists of presents to the bride and bridegroom) rules were framed.
d)The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 came into force on October 26, 2006 to prevent the incidents of domestic violence are higher among the lower Socio-Economic Classes.
e)The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act was passed in 1956 to prevent women from forced prostitution, domestic work or child labor.
f)All medical tests that can be used to determine the sex of the child have been banned in India, due to incidents of these tests being used to get rid of unwanted female children before birth. Female infanticide (killing of girl infants).
