What Is The Sociological Perspective Of Women By Woman

"Women by Women" is a documentary on the real life from some of the less developed villages of India, produced by Dorothy Fadiman in 2001. The documentary focuses on undervalued women living in abject poverty and under gender discrimination, who are currently in the process of coming out of seclusion to get back into the society and serve in their community actively. Into the film, we can meet peoples who support these endeavors in an effort to bridge the gender inequality gap. For instance, a woman who teaches some women of the village on how they can plan better their families, and to help the planning of other families as well; a man who works side-by-side to his wife in a society where men dominate, becoming in an inspiration and hope source

Conflict Perspective sees the social world as a tournament, riddled with strives that generate social conflicts and social changes, while seeks to discover the tensions behind the umbrella of order. From this point we can explain the reasons behind their behaviors

In terms of inequality, in women by women is evident that Indian women are not given same rights that men, either in their marriage or in the work they do; on the contrary, women face lot of discrimination that demonstrate the superiority of men over women (Fadiman, 2001). According to India’s tradition, women are expected to live a seclusion life as care-takers of children and elderly. Therefore, having a career and contributing with family's income is unachievable to them, remarking the conflict perspective. However, Sureta and her husband defied this inequality by sharing their roles and home responsibilities, and working together as counselors and as care-takers. While doing this, they look to inspire other couples to follow them and start working together. In the meantime, and contrary to expected from a mother-in-law, Raka’s mother-in-law encourages her to become a nurse practitioner and so contribute to her community’s well-being counseling

Since a very young age, girls are sidelined and denied access to these resources. As every woman, they are supposed to do the hard work while boys have a good education. In the same way, they received less food than a boy after doing all the hard work. For instance, a young girl is seen carrying a heavy pint of water for the family that makes her almost fall. however, she continues and no one men is coming to help her. Another example is Damayanti, who encourages her daughter to go school and have a good education in order to improve her social status, contrary to most women in their society who are deprived of education and so they have to take care of heavy