Advantages And Disadvantages Of Khap Panchayat

The Khasi is one of the tribes living in Meghalaya state of North-East India. This tribe draws much attention of the sociologists, because this tribe practices matrilineal system characterized in terms of marriage, inheritance of property and matrilocal post-marital residence and other social relations. This is rare in other society. It is commonly believed that the status of women in matrilineal society is higher as compared to that of patrilineal society. This can be seen in terms of empowerment and other roles played by the women.

As a result of these reviews, the ongoing reconstruction of the social status and roles of Hindu women has brought about many new changes in Hinduism. Some of these changes include changes in education, health measures, problems of early marriages, the positions of widows, and the representation of women in governing bodies (Desai, et al., 1995). For example, within Hinduism now,

The main issue that brought attention to this law was the Singh case, which demonstrates a man murdering his wife, with his first attempt of strangling her, and when that was not successful, he began to slit her throat with a Stanley knife. This degree of violence, alongside his sentencing gives the impression that the judiciary system, courts and parliament partially understood the idea that men should have the authority to violently retaliate to the words of women, which can potentially lead to death. The idea that women ask for violence through their words or actions, and the concept of ‘a crime of passion’ are very outdated, and display the values that societies held when women did not have the same amount of rights, respect and power in

Everywhere around the world women and girls are terrorized, mistreated and victims of abuse, rape, and assault. Sadly this kind of treatment towards women and girls is often very common in Asian countries. The article by Gardiner Harris entitled, “Rape of Girl, 5, Draws Focus to Child Assault in India”, talks about how an innocent five year old girl was raped, tortured and almost killed in India. Harris wrote in the article that people demand stricter laws against sex crimes and that there should be more protection for women. In Asia women tend to be less desirable, and are treated with less respect than a man. Harris also claims that news reports are packed with stories about heinous crimes and assaults against women (Gardiner Harris, 2013).

It is important for men to remember that women are somebody’s daughter, wife, sister, or friend. From India to Africa there are similar stories shared by women. In Afghanistan, a woman speaks out, “You would think a conservative Muslim nation would be against making sexual comments to strangers, but men feel justified to invite women to have sex with them, talk about women's bodies and call women "whores" simply because women are in public. However, because talking about sexual things is so taboo, we keep quiet. We know that if we speak we will be blamed and silenced.” The most astonishing part of harassment is that women always get blamed either implicitly or explicitly. When they report the harassment or assault, they are asked what they were wearing or if they were drunk. Other times they are told not to go outside after dark or if they do to go out with a man so nothing happens to them. Any society where a woman has to think about her safety at all times of the day is

Women in India could not own property at all until 1937. Even then, women were only granted that right through family inheritance or their marital status. It is still rare for women to be in possession of land despite the number of acts that have passed over the century. From British colonial rule through postcolonial times and even now, women are still having to express their desire for rights that men have like inheritance and ownership. During colonial times, progress was made by simply the idea of women having rights being expressed. It was seen to conflict with the Hindu beliefs and practices, so most of the time rights for women were only written, not actually implemented. Furthermore, the debates were ongoing and over the years as people persisted, bills like the Age of Consent Act of 1891 and the Hindu Succession Bill of 1956 were passed. The reason for all the opposition of reforming Hindu laws was usually due to how much it interfered with Hindu practices and traditional family values. The more rights women received, the less authenticity was left in the Hindu culture therefore being seen as destructive to the Indian, patriarchal society despite the progress made for women (Williams, 2013). This shows that Hindu itself hinders progress from being made for all people and benefits men more than it does women. Simply put, the

Such bills need the national council of all provinces to follow an extended procedure than legislation that does not affect the provinces. The shortcoming with the current bill conditions that it was drafted in partnership with the National house of traditional leaders and ascribes a list of advice-giving workshops all of which complicated modern leaders only it seems that no effort was made to refer to normal rural people or consult rural women as particular interest group. The bill is criticised for labelling traditional leaders as ruling majors in the traditional courts, eliminating some assembly surrounded by the traditional justice system, establishing the insufficient and limited contribution of women other exposed groups in pronouncement making, leaving out legal specialists from demonstrating complainants, authorising authorisations that go outside the present justice scheme and letting for limited application device (Bennet,

When the society perceive and acknowledge male dominance as a social norm, it will cause men to believe that they rule above other gender. According to Taylor (2012), men have the urge to be in all control and powerful. Men tend to view women as inferior beings, so they self-appointed themselves to manage women’s lives in order to boost up their dominance. On the other hand, women are expected to surrender to men’s dominancy without questioning their validity because revolt will only lead to violence. In New Delhi, an innocent girl was shot dead just because she refused to be sexually harassed. It is clear that in such cases, men use violence as a way to “tame” women and force women to succumb to their dominance. Consequently, women have

This caste system also allows patriarchal rule, which greatly limits the roles of women in, the Indian society.

Introduction: The Constitution (Seventy-Third Amendment) Act, 1992 was enacted to reform the Panchayat System in India. The Legislature of Indian States were given powers to determine the powers and composition of Gram Sabha and Gram Panchayats. Hence, the powers, functions and composition of Gram Panchayats are determined by the State Governments in accordance with the local needs.

The chief contention of this project is that rape as a sexual and gender crime against women is a manifestation of the forces and sociological structures that are much less obvious than any literature on criminal jurisprudence on the subject of ‘rape’ and sexual crimes will suggest. Hence this necessitates a deep study and literature review of all dimensions that explain the institutional structures and forces that explain ‘rape’ in the Indian context and which through theoretical models and deep introspection can generate a well researched and relevant model of feminist activism that can mitigate the dangers of patriarchal power imbalance between the sexes.

Introduction:- Violence affects the lives of millions of women worldwide in all socio-economic & educational classes. It cuts across

Irrespective of national affluence or level of development, women are vulnerable to exploitation, oppression and all other types of explicit violence from men in all societies where cultural norms, tradition and legal system sanction women's subordination to men. In India, an important mechanism of male dominance is the propagation of gender ideology through sanctions of religious texts and their gender-selective interpretation by the community leaders. Moreover, increasing exposure to violence through popular reading, theaters, film and TV shows, satellite culture etc. directly or indirectly encourage men to commit offences like rape.

There have been innumerable debates about gender in (Banerjee 2012) Punjab over last 60 years. Most of them were about women’s positions in society, their education, health, economic status, gender equality. What we can conclude from these discussions is that how women have always held a certain contradictory position in our developing country in past years. In recent years women held a very less respectful position . they were not treated as human.On other hand, Punjab has an increased percentage of literacy among women . now women are allowed to enter into professional fields now. However, in the 1950s my grandmother tells women were just made to do household chores. They were not allowed to get higher education or even go out without the permission of parents. They were supposed to be at home . while on the other hand the practices of female foeticide, poor health conditions and lack of education persisting still continue. Even the supportive ideology of the home being women’s real domain and marriage being her ultimate destiny has not changed much in last 60 years.

Indian politicians believed that the objective of the policy for women's development "should consist of a shift of attitude from one of compassion and welfare to that of treatment of women as equal partners with men," (Madhok). One way the Indian government promoted it was that nearly five years ago, the government brought in legislation reserving seats for women on panchayats, or councils which make decisions on every important decision in village political life. Originally the sole preserve of men, panchayats now have women members and leaders, who are slowly beginning to challenge feudal traditions and change the way the councils run. The society in India is beginning to accept women in high political positions. In this case, political culture plays a significant role since Indian society promotes the representation of women, and thus, it is a part of that nation's culture. Since Indian society supports more representation of women, or at least equal representation given the population size, political culture helps push the women's movement forward.