Are women in India still considered inferior to men? Why is the boy looked upon as the bearer for the family and the girl child shunned? Why are women not given an equal chance of education in order to compete with men?
I remember as a girl, growing up in India, my mother was always confined to the home. Her mandatory duties were to care for my brother and I, cook for the entire family, and assume all necessary duties that were expected in our home. She was never able to journey outside the household for any other reasons other than to fulfill her required duties of the home. This was considered a common expectation for the majority of Indian women in our society. However, my father’s role was different. His duties consisted of working and earning wages to support our family. He was not required to care for my brother and me emotionally or physically. He did not have to tend to any house chores or help my mother with her house duties. This is a common way of life for people in India. I wonder if my mother was content or did she ever want more in her life instead of just being confined to the home. Whatever the case may be, she did not have a choice. At that time, my mother’s life was no different than any other women’s life in India. Women were considered inferior to men.
With the increasing amount of feminists and advocators promoting women’s rights, India’s treatment of women is still behind compared to other modern societies. Some factors that contribute to the suppression of women are education, culture, and religion.
I remember at one point, women were not allowed to attend colleges and universities because there were laws prohibiting them from attending. If any woman had goals of becomi...
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...ly. Most educated women today, prefer to hold family and children as their first priority. Now, a working woman in India is still expected to carry out the responsibilities of the household, while their husband may be willing to offer a helping hand sometimes.
We have moved into a new era, where women are not better than men, or vice versa. Women and men both have different talents, strengths, and weaknesses. It is said that behind every successful man, there was a woman who made it possible for him to be successful. Women should no longer be considered the inferior sex. They should stand together with men and define their role in society. They can choose to work outside or stay at home. This should allow women to have more time to develop their own interests. Men should also take an equal share in housework to release women from the kitchen.
Although society claims that we are in the age where there is gender equality, it is clear that women are still not of equal standing than men. In our society, women are of lower status than men. Such as in the workplace, a male employee’s project proposal is favored over a female employee’s proposal because a male superior believes that women cannot construct ideas as well as male employees. This is a result of how our culture has influence our view that women are less superior than men. Our male dominant culture taught us that women are not as capable as men are and that between the two genders, the man is the superior.
Indian society was patriarchal, centered on villages and extended families dominated by males (Connections, Pg. 4). The villages, in which most people lived, were admini...
Women's rights is the fight for women to have equal rights to men. In India women have a secondary status within the household and workplace. This will affect a women's health, financial status, education, and political involvement. Women are normally married young, quickly become mothers, and are then burdened by this and also financial responsibilities. Unfortunately to this present day we are still fighting for women’s rights.
Some men believe women are inferior to the male species; however, that is not the case. Both men and women are both capable of achieving greatness if given half the chance to do so, unfortunately, this means equality. In “From A Vindication of the Rights of Women”, Mary Wollstonecraft dispenses her thoughts on how unfairly women are treated in the 1700s, in addition to expressing her opinion on the issue in her essay. Wollstonecraft stated that “Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”, this statement is very true, no matter what times you are living in. Women are unique and equal creatures that can offer many things to society if given the same proper education and training
still limited. Women are still facing the prospect of violence and unequal treatment every day.
Within the earliest of civilizations of India, pre-pubescent girls were offered to men as wives, which ultimately lead to the destruction of women’s domestic independence. As said in Document 1, “because girls married before they could finish their education, they were not qualified to perform ritual sacrifices. Furthermore, wives’ legal rights eroded.” Likewise, Indian women became politically subordinate to men. However, by modern standards, women’s social
The oppression of women in society plays a huge role in how mothers raise their young daughters for the cruel world that waits. In Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl”, Kincaid lists multiple stereotypical roles of the “typical” women in her short text. Without question, Kincaid defines roles of women in a way that may seem sexist and put a strong limit on what women can and cannot do. Moreover, Kincaid’s piece does come to empower women and evokes various degrees of power, freedom and the control of women.
From the very beginning of history, women were portrayed to be insignificant in comparison to men in society. A woman 's purpose was deemed by men to be housewives, bear children and take care of the household chores. Even so, that at a young age girls were being taught the chores they must do and must continue through to adulthood. This ideal that the woman’s duty was to take charge of household chores was then passed through generations, even til this day. However, this ideology depends on the culture and the generation mothers were brought up in and what they decide to teach their daughters about such roles. After women were given the opportunity to get an education and treated as equals, society’s beliefs undertook a turning point on women’s roles in society. Yet, there still seems to be a question amongst women in search of self identity and expectations from parents.
Growing up in a traditional Punjabi family with both of my parents being born and raised in India has been an experience that I can only fully comprehend now at the age of twenty-three. Realizing how backward our culture is when it comes to women’s equality among family and society is an astonishing thought. Even though there is more gender equality here in America than in India within our households the women are still subjected to live and serve the men of the house. This custom has become almost an unconscious thought, to think of Punjabi women living in a traditional family more than a maid or babysitter would be blasphemous and heretical talk.
Women in history were subjected to an oppressed role, which men were in control. Many of these women created groups to talk about these problems such as the Seneca Falls. Women fought for equality, but some were happy with the status quo, and some simply became the change.
Document one shows that a woman in India should be taken care of by the men in her life; her father cares for her as a child, her husband while she is a wife, and her sons as an elder. Even though women are to be honored and taken care of, they are still involved in a patriarchal society and do not have much independence. For the men, this is very important in dharma, as it is essential to take care of your wife if you wish to become closer to unity with the divine essence. Even so, compared to a woman 's place in
Before I go into this essay it is important to know several things about me as a person, and specifically a woman. I pride myself for being fair, strong, loyal, accepting, and generous. I avoid confrontation except when it comes to defend the people who I love the most. I have always had to be the strong one in my family. I was the calm one who always puts a positive spin on the gloomy moments. Most importantly I know that so many things are wrong with this world, and I see them every day, and I believe that it is my duty to help change the world. I know that I am meant to do something great. I am meant to do something that is going to change everything. That is what motivates me.
From the beginning of time, females have played a powerful role in the shaping of this world. They have stood by idly and watched as this country moved on without them, and yet they have demanded equal rights as the nation rolls along. Through the years the common belief has been that women could not perform as well as men in anything, but over the years that belief has been proven wrong time and time again. So as time marches on, women have clawed and fought their way up the ladder to gain much needed equal respect from the opposite sex. However, after many years of pain and suffering, the battle for equal rights has not yet been won. Since women have fought for a long time and proven their importance in society, they deserve the same rights as men.
In the past, many people believed that women’s exclusive responsibilities were to serve their husband, to be great mothers and to be the perfect wives. Those people considered women to be more appropriate for homemaking rather than to be involved in business or politics. This meant that women were not allowed to have a job, to own property or to enjoy the same major rights as men. The world is changing and so is the role of women in society. In today’s society, women have rights that they never had before and higher opportunities to succeed.
Women have often been called upon to make sacrifices and suppress their personal desires.They have often been left on the margins of the social set-up as far as their personal desires and fufilment of those desires is concerned. Women are not a minority in our society but their “lives, experiences and values have been treated as marginal” and men’s experiences have been assumed to be central to society. One also needs to contest the often stated view that in India women have always enjoyed a place of respect and dignity, that they have been respected as ‘devis.’ It needs to be seen that “the respect and privileges which accompany the position of a ‘devi’ are not only anti-individualistic,” they are also anti-humanistic and “deny women a personhood”.