gender issues and social taboos

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Gender issues and social taboos in India

• - Ashita Selvin

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What is gender inequality ?

• Gender inequality is the social phenomenon in
  which men and women are not treated equally.

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What is social taboos ?

• Social taboos mean
• A custom
  prohibiting or restricting a particular practice
  or forbidding association with a particular
  person, place, or thing.

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• Thousands of Indian woman are still been
  suffering because of social taboos

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Some of the social taboos in India

• In many religions in India, marrying outside your
  religion is considered unsacred and is frowned
  upon. Mostly marrying outside their religion, the
  bride or groom is killed

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• One of the cruel practise done in India is during
  menstruation girls have to sleep only in balcony,
  they are not allowed to enter kitchen, temple,
  etc

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• Because they are considered impure. In some
  societies it involves menstruation being
  perceived as unclean or embarrassing.

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They are not allowed to go to school or touch
males. They are restricted to attend any
religious function. They are told that it is a
shame to tell the pharmacist that they need pad,
and showing it to boys.
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Menstruation is also a process like respiration
and digestion . There is no need of being
embarrassed. We should educate people about it.
Gender inequality is decreasing but not
disappearing. We all together joining hands
should help our mother earth come out of this
social taboos
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