- PII
- S0321-50750000617-4-1
- DOI
- 10.31857/S50000617-4-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 5
- Pages
- 42-46
- Abstract
- Indian experience demonstrates that, in spite of 65 years of independent development, adoption of a number of laws aimed at the emancipation of women, in reality women are still one of the most vulnerable parts of society. Traditional submission about roles and identities of women in the family, in caste and in community promote gender inequality. The caste system is largely based on religious precepts which enshrine inequality between men and women. Through moral and ethical imperative of religion Brahmin priests supported reproduction of the caste system for centuries and through generations, because they saw in it an effective mechanism of power and conservation of inequality. Lately struggle between democratic community and traditionalists on the situation of women deteriorated sharply.
- Keywords
- India, gender, caste, family, gender asymmetry, female infanticide
- Date of publication
- 01.05.2013
- Number of purchasers
- 1
- Views
- 1221
RAS History & PhilologyAsia and Africa Today
- ISSN (Print) 0321-5075
- ISSN (Online)2782-2389
INDIAN WOMEN. TRADITIONS AND MODERNITY
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