Discrimination against a Girl Child: from Conception through Adulthood “Beta! Wo larka hai, larkiyan aisey nahi karti..” “Stop crying like a girl..” “Kiya larkiyon ki tarah ghar par baithey ho, go & play outside.” Sounds familiar? I’m sure many of us can relate to this very thing. Endless statements, but all of these are built on the same purpose; to instill within both a girl & a boy how a boy is and always will be superior to a girl. Despite coming from educated families, we all are a part of
inferior sex, domestic violence and gender discrimination. Hilary Clinton, Sonia Gandhi,
By health equity we mean that everyone has right to spend a healthy life beyond any discrimination of class ethnicity and race. The purpose of measuring equity in provision of health services is necessity of any state. It is observed that under developed countries poor states or provinces are unable to achieve the said target of health equity so the people of those state and provinces suffer with unhealthy life style, which ultimately affects their HDI and impact negatively on the long term economic
women are still provided inadequate representation in many high-state profession fields particularly those associated with physical science, engineering, and applied mathematics. Many constituent, ranging from straight-out discrimination to the processes connected with gender role socialization, contribute to these gendered convention of educational and profession choices. Profession segregation results inthreatening of the earnings and welfare of female
Gender Discrimination in the Private Sphere Imagine a world devoid of duality, oh how dull it would be! Duality makes the various systems of this world organized and characterful. Otherwise, everything may seem insipid. Duality could be in the form of jubilance or melancholy, day or night, success or failure, affluence or poverty or men or women. It is the duality of men and women that makes our family systems complete, resulting in a smooth flow of life. However, there is a unique line parallel
compromised in South Asia. Family law in this region which ought to encompass areas of women’s rights also accommodates gender discrimination. The center of society is the family unit, yet woman, the main character, is often ignored in getting acknowledgement socially as well as legally. Family law here has provided ground for debate for feminists in search of laws with respect to gender. In South Asia, complex personal laws that cater to marriage, inheritance, divorce and custody are in practice and
Development, urbanization and nation-building have indeed affected the gender positions and change notions of gender in various ways and levels. However, it is not right to say that these factors have totally changed the notions of gender South Asia, but instead it has only improved the situation by a small margin as compared to the past as gender inequities continues to persist in South Asia. In order to totally get rid of the gender inequality, a greater voice and power of women would be needed in
persistent and cross cutting challenge in Pakistan. Poverty is not just poverty in income but poverty means lack of opportunity. These are many deprivations of human society just like lack of education, ill health, and social evulsions, discriminations on the basis of ethnicity, gender, and religion and political repression gave a chance to prevail the poverty in society. That’s why poverty is multi dimensional phenomenon, not a single dimensional
Introduction Pakistan and Nigeria have two things in common, reactionary, religious operators and a society which oppresses women. Nigeria is the nation with the highest amount of non-attendees in school in the world, and the majority of these children are girls. A total of 10 million youths are not receiving formal education, and in the current, violent climate, this number is rising. Education and literacy is amongst the most important and efficient tools used for changing the quality of lives
(2015) conducted study on the causes and consequences of Child Marriages in South Asia: Pakistan’s Perspective. The researchers observed early marriage as a one of the practices in South Asian region particularly in Pakistan. Numerous young girls are married in this region in the pretext of cultural, social and religious traditions. As a result, the girls remain disadvantaged educationally, psychologically, physically and economically. The young girls also keep on suffering