The Rural Women of India

Introduction: From a very past time India has the issues related to women, but we live in a time where these issues like gender discrimination are sorted out. Till, 1980s women and girls were dying just because of their health issues and social issues or they were killed soon after they were born. Today, this situation is somehow in undercontrol because of the ‘medical technology’. They are now eliminated in the womb of the mother. Government has taken many actions towards the rate of female

With the beginning of the 1980's came the introduction of a debt crisis. This put extraordinary financial strain on a community that prided itself on self-reliance and providing all that ones' family needs through farming. However, with the added financial burden, farming as a sole means of survival was not a viable solution. Therefore, women were forced to take a much greater role as a provider for the family. They were able to take on this role through "selling agricultural products, and making and selling weavings, pottery, and chichi."

Traditions and culture can have an impact on protection, intervention and support provided to rural women (Shoaf, 2004). It is not uncommon for women to

As industrialization spread in Western Europe, the production of products and goods moved from the household to factories which drastically changed family life. Married women were unable to work unless they left their children and home in someone else’s care. Moreover, middle-class women generally did not leave their homes in order to work. In contrast, the women of Eastern Asia rapidly joined the work force after the introduction of industrialization and made up a gigantic portion of the labor force. This difference is probably due to the fact that the rural women of Eastern Asia were always laborers, and they make up the majority of the female population. Additionally, European women generally preferred domestic labor to laborious tasks. Rural women were offered independence by leaving their homes in order to perform domestic work; they generally sent their earnings to their families or saved it for themselves. Moreover, the European women that participated in the work force were forced to travel long distances and were separated from their families from long hours. Additionally, their wages were significantly lower than that of their male counterparts. Furthermore, women worked under poor conditions and were constantly susceptible to disease. Similarly, the poor women of Eastern Asia sought employment in the cotton and silk industry.

Gender inequality is displayed in many countries around the globe. In India, the society begins gendering as soon as a child is born. In most cases, the birth of a daughter is unwelcome but that of a son is celebrated. The boys are brought up bold and outgoing while the girls are expected to be at home and do chores. While the other discriminations like economic or social discriminations are present outside the home, but gender discrimination is present outside and inside households. In a familial setup, the father is the head of the family and decision maker. The mother generally performs the ‘home making’. Even if the woman is employed, she is expected to do the domestic chores, in addition to her job. Even though she earns, she does not have the freedom to plan her salary or decide anything.

In a critical analysis, India has been subjected and thrown into the fire as many continue to thrive this uphill battle of inequality and gender relation issues. Although inequality is a largely debatable issue, especially when convoluted

There has been much publicity about the lives of women in India and how they are regarded. I would like to explore this topic in order to clarify and organize the abundance of information that has been in the media and in publications. I will focus this this topic comparing two countries, India and the US. Both are democratic countries and both have some forms of inequality. I will start by giving background information about both of the country’s political and cultural systems when relevant and the inequalities. This will produce the answer to which of the two states has made more improvements in the area, my dependent variable. Then I will go on to the bulk of the research in explaining the causes of the improvements or lack thereof which will be which will be the independent variables.

Firstly, the second class will be mentioned, also known as the peasants. Peasant women were commonly thought just another worker. Although they were thought of as equally in their social class, they were only thought of as equal to the man while they were working and doing labor work. Peasant women also did not lead themselves to be pushed around by the common man, they did have to snow a considerable amount of respect though. That was only toward their fathers and late husbands. Peasants were married by purchase, by capture, and also by mutual consent. When peasants would be content to get married, they were only little children at the age of fourteen. Ladies after marriage, would have their first child at fifth-teen, then pass by the ages

Seventy percent of Indian people live on approximately less than a dollar and twenty-five cents a day. It is nearly impossible for Indians to get out of poverty and become successful individuals. All simply because their destiny is their last name in which limits them to a certain profession. The main factor is the ancient Indian caste system. It encourages injustice and poverty by dividing people according to their class. According to Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, individuality is defined as a person who helps those that are oppressed.

Some countries have social stigmas that look down upon outsiders or women doing anything other than housework and raising a family, but putting more people to work not only provides more food put it also provides more money for their families. “The women have made progress in fighting hunger and poverty within an area characterized with high levels of food scarcity de to its semi-arid feature, attracting low levels of rainfall,” (“Feature: Kenya’s women fight hunger, poverty with bee products”). Members of villages have found that allowing their women to work outside of the home is helping especially in areas that have droughts and there crops die. A vice chair member in kenya has said “It is a good thing to see women do something to escape

Summary and Reaction In her 2001 film, Dorothy Fadiman highlights the plight of women in rural India and brings to light the extreme gender bias they face. We are told that women are regularly barred from education and given less food. Young girls are expected to work on family farms and for long hours that cause them to become educationally stunted. These long hours also contribute to significant pain in their later years.

Traditionally, an Indian woman had only four roles and those were; Her role as a daughter, wife, sister, and lastly, a mother. The women in today’s time however are experiencing far reaching changes and are entering into new fields that were unknown to them. They are actively participating in social, economic and political activities. Unlike the older times, women today have received higher education.

In many developing countries globalization has brought masses of wealth to the elite at the expense of the poor. Consequently, many women of the poorer classes leave their homeland in search of opportunities for employment. These women are disproportionately affected by

TITLE: A Study on the Need of Women Education for Socio-Economic Development of Rural Assam Birinchi Choudhury**

Further inequality is outlined in Table 2, which shows that women in professional and manager positions are unemployed at higher rates compared to men. However, it also display that women achieve higher rates of employment in education and health care positions. This is consistent with the ‘soft roles’ that women in rural agriculture are generally employed in, highlighted in pink.