This document discusses various issues facing women in India, including lack of implementation of women's rights, gender-based violence, lack of education, health issues, and dowry-related deaths. It notes that while laws have been passed to address these issues, enforcement is still lacking. It argues that educating women would empower them and that a shift in mindset is needed to accept girls as equal to boys in order to make progress on these issues.

1. Presentation by:
Rahul Pareek
TECH52248
State: West Bengal

2.  Besides
the campaigns that look after the
needs and rights of women, too little is
implemented. What comes out as a result is
the deprivation of women of what they do
deserve.
 Considerable cases are heard about rapes,
the disgraceful act towards females because
of dowry, female feticides etc.

3.  The
cry for gender discrimination, which
undertakes empowering the position of
women is quite a concerned problem,
though the “least concerned”.
 India is budding out as a health conscious
country, but amidst this “healthconsciousness” women are kept lagging
behind, most unconcerned.

4.  EDUCATION
When it comes to educating girl, many will step
back from this commitment, as the thought goes
that its just a mere “waste of money” when
much is to be invested in the form of dowry when
she will be seen off to her husband‟s home.
If we have to believe the literacy survey
conducted in the year 2013, literacy rate of
women accounts to 65.46% as compared to their
counterparts which accounts to 82.14%.

5.  According
to a 1998 report by the U.S.
Department of Commerce, the chief
barriers to female education in India are
inadequate school facilities (such as
sanitary facilities), shortage of female
teachers and gender bias in the curriculum
(female characters being depicted as weak
and helpless).

6.  It
does not make a huge talk when in the
daily news paper a column reads out a
new crime which has laid yet “another”
woman to the sleep of death.
 The National Crime Records Bureau
reported in 1998 that by 2013 growth in the
rate of crimes against women would
exceed the “population growth rate”.

7.  RAPE
There is no doubt in the inclusion of this crime on the
top of the list. Yet no other being so competitive
than this one when it comes to taking a woman‟s life
yet leaving her alive.
Dignity of a woman is now no more the same, when
she has to think before she goes out of her home
even in her own country.
New Delhi has the highest rate of rape-reports among
Indian cities. If sources are to be believed, rape
cases in India have doubled between 1995 and
2013.s

8.  According
to the NCRB, 29,807 rape
cases were registered in India in 2013,
although the cases of unreported sexual
assault is higher.
 The New Delhi “Nirbhaya” case is the
recent one.

9. Acid is cheap, easily available, quickest way to
cleanse the toilet sinks and of destroying a
woman‟s life too.
Weak and gutless men use it as a weapon to
take revenge from the woman who “dared” to
refuse his proposal.
Many cases have been come up, one of an
NCC cadet of Jharkhand, who is now striving
to breathe every second of her life.
The criminals, as usual free as before.

10. When it comes to the rituals of India, one
which has always concerned the father of
the bride is “how to arrange the dowry”,
which is a “demanded gift”.
At least 5000women in India die dowry-related
deaths, and at least a dozen die each day in
„kitchen fires‟ thought to be intentional.

11. In 1961 the Government of India passed the
Dowry Prohibition Act making giving and
accepting of dowry in marriages illegal.
Though very few has been enforced, as the
number of dowry-related deaths are
increasing day by day.

12. It has been a common belief in India that it‟s a
son who can maintain the legacy of a family
and the whole family than relies on him,
females are considered as a burden, as
nothing could be expected out of them.
So this belief of people has led to a steep
increase in the female infanticides, i.e. an
unborn female child is laid to the sleep of
death even before she could see the morning
of her life.

13. Its not the „western culture‟ as they say is
responsible for molestation of women, it‟s the
thinking and attitude of illiterate men towards
an educated woman.
A woman has the right to wear what she likes
and is comfortable in.
No law can be well implemented even if the law
makers are involved in these activities. In
2013, India‟s top court investigated on a law
graduate‟s allegation that she was sexually
harassed by recently retired Supreme Court
judge.

14. When it comes to the health of women in India we
are least concerned. The maternal mortality in
India is the 56th highest in the world. The
average female life expectancy today in India is
too low as compared to many other countries.
Diseases like malnutrition, anaemia, breast
cancer are common among the Indian women.

15. Though India is developing where economic
strategies are concerned, but not a single
eye gives a look on the miserable
condition of women. Laws are created, but
not followed. People protest but
themselves don‟t want to unveil what has
happened with their daughter.
This would never be same if we take logical
steps.

16. Instead of merely talking and debating on
the issues that were discussed in the
previous slides, we should find out the
solutions to them. Much to our
astonishment, solutions are present in
front of us but we ignore them.

17.  First
we have to understand that what is the
importance of the role of a woman in our
society. Can we imagine this world without
them? Would this world exist then?
 So, first thing we have to do, is educating
women. This would result in having power in
their hands. They would be able to decide what
is right and what is not.

18.  We
have to accept a girl child as we do
with a boy child. All are equal, and so are
these counterparts. Sometimes even
better. Research shows that old parents
are supported more by a girl child than a
boy.
 A women‟s health should be taken care of,
when she is pregnant she needs a special
dose of nutrients.

19. Respect is earned if we give it. We cant
expect our wife to give us respect or to
obey us if we don‟t think for her dignity and
integrity.
A small thinking can bring a vast change.
Then that day wont be too far when this
country could be proud of “everyone” that
are born on it.