Problems of working women in India?
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These books look promising:\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-3540516-8751131?url=index%3Dblended&search-option=search-amazon&field-keywords=working+women+in+india&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go
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Yes, reservations like in jobs and education may also come for legislatures. But the policy makers are unable to clear the women reservations bill since a long time due to lack of consensus between various political parties. If this is the case, there are various castes and religions in India, so we cannot expect reservations for MPs and MLAs in the near future.
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try this for a change\n\nhttp://www.makerere.ac.ug/womenstudies/congress/abstarct/Gender,%20the%20Economy%20and%20the%20Workplace.htm
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There are several clear indicators of the fact that Indian women continue to be discriminated against: the sex ratio is skewed against them; maternal mortality is the second-highest in the world; more than 40 per cent of women are illiterate; and crimes against women are on the rise. Yet, the women's movement which gathered strength after the 1970s, has led to progressive legislation and positive change, spurred on by the participation of women in local self-government.\n \n\n \nRoots of discrimination / Beginnings of change / Status of women in India / The women's movement / Legal status / Political participation / Minority rights / Current concerns\n\nIt is a paradox of modern India that women wield power and hold positions at the topmost levels, yet large sections of women are among the most underprivileged. Some women from the upper classes head political parties and command large followings, yet women's representation in the Parliament and state legislatures has not been more than 10 per cent.\n\nThe roots of discrimination against women lie in the religious and cultural practices of India. The beginning of changes started with the reform movements in the nineteenth century, which addressed practices like sati, child marriage, life of the widows, etc. The status of women in the contemporary context is reflected in the state of their health, education, employment and life in society.\n\nThe Indian women's movement started with addressing the problems that women faced, like violence, property rights, legal status, political participation, and the rights of minority women. Today, Indian women have won several victories against an oppressive way of life and are poised to raise pertinent questions that will make their lives more emancipating.\n\nWHERE DO THE ROOTS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN LIE? \n\nThey can be traced back to ancient Hindu civilisation. Although some studies point to the equal status and rights that women enjoyed in the Vedic period (2500 B.C. to 1500 B.C.), patriarchy seems to have been the norm throughout history.\n\nIn the later Aryan period after 300 B.C., domination by the Brahmins (the priestly class), the growth of the caste system and other factors led to social decline. Child marriage became the norm, wives were expected to worship their husbands, barren women were thrown out of their homes and widows were not permitted to remarry. Many of these vicious customs are still observed in parts of the country. \n\nOther religions, like Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism or Islam, have questioned some of the practices in Hinduism, but, by and large, all religions have kept their women in varying stages of confinement and restrictions. The Bhakti cults tried to restore women's status and questioned some of the forms of oppression. \n\n\nTHE BEGINNING OF CHANGES\n\nOne of the fallouts of English education for the middle class during the colonial period was a change in attitude towards women. Through the Arya Samaj and the Brahmo Samaj, the Bengali middle class questioned the rigidity of brahminical Hinduism. Social reformers like Raja Rammohun Roy opposed sati or the practice of burning the widow on the husband's funeral pyre. The government abolished it in 1829. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's crusade for widows led to the Widow Remarriage Act of 1856. Several decades of agitation led to the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929 that stipulated 14 as the minimum age of marriage for a girl. Education of girls through formal schooling was another major concern. The All India Women's Education Conference held in Pune in 1927 became a leading organisation in the movement for social change. \n\nWomen played a major role in the struggle for freedom from colonial rule. In 1917, the first women's delegation met the Secretary of State to demand women's political rights. The Indian National Congress supported the demand. In 1949 independent India gave them their due by enshrining in the
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The most important problem for a woman in Iran is:\n\nBeing in Iran.
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Overpopulation is one of the worst problems in India. India has very high Gross Domestic Product value but beacuse of overpopulation India's per capita income is quite low. Population growth according to some recent research can also be positive for India. Europe, Japan and China are losing people and that will create a workforce shortage. Number of elderly people would increase and they will demand their pensions. That would actually be bad for their economy. However, I believe that India will overcome all this challenges, like it always has. For example - countless number of invasions and tremendous ethnic diversity.
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No I don't.  Women still are discriminated against in the workplace here in the United States; and in many other nations, they face even more severe restrictions.  Women are also greatly marginalized by the world's predominant religions.  Judeo-Christian mythology still contends that women were made from Adam's rib, soley as a companion for Adam.  Muslim women are severely oppressed as well.\n\nThe human race isn't as far out of the jungle as it often gives itself credit for!
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the indian women in the freedom struggle were guided by gandhiji. they would picket shops selling liqour and foriefgn goods. look for names like sarojini naidu and annie besant. u can search on google . there r plenty of websites
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I don't think it's a male or female issue. Some people just have a hard time motivating themselves to get on time. Other people just can't budget their time well. It just depends on the person.
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He's about the 500th Indian looking for a woman on here, what he should be doing instead is being a little more pro-active in WHY women are so hard to come by in his country. Two long-term epidemic problems in India, female infanticide and dowry killing, have made the male-female ratio extremely skewed in the age 19 to 30 crowd. By killing their little girls, unborn baby girls, and young women, they have made their bed and now must sleep in it...alone.
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well corruption is one big prob.And now the growing insecurity for women
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It is most shameful and unacceptable to find difference between male and female in India,despite being a democratic and being on the footage of being an advance country in all direction.We follow the steps of many western and other countries and copy them in matching male with female but to no avail.We are in 21st century and education,good social values and other moral values are spreading like a fire in every nook and corner of the country.The rural areas are fast approaching their urban counterparts in learning and learning good for the family and society and working shoulder to shoulder of male partner.You can dind women in every profession-including defence,civil services,banks.spaced technology,teachers,trainers,good administrators,fine managers,good mothers and house wives and even looking after their old age parents or younger sisters and brothers better than their male counterparts in the society.Tell me where they are not.They are competing with the male in each and every field including flying fighting planes and commercial planes.\n\nHow can we forget great women like Sarojini Naidu,Indira Gandhi a few to mention.these are not stray cases.We have women controlling big industries worth billions and billions of rupees.They are the best entertainers to their male counterparts.They are devoted,faithful,loving,caring,wise and above all soft at heart.\n\nI do not see why a difference is still being mainained by even educated males.It is not unfortunate but it is most shocking and a serious problem of the Indian society even after 60 years of independence.Many women also participated in the freedom fighting against the Britishers before 1947.\n\nThe difference if any is only due to the evil brain of the male who on one side feels the better being and more educated and more responsible.But I feel this is not the real man who represents the male but only falsehood,which is not only creating confusion but also problems for self and others.\n\nIt is really high time that the real male wakes up from his deep slumber of domination and recognises the true counterpart the female without whom he is incomplete in all the spheres.It is the time that empowered the women with full heart and support and made them feel a strong person as male in any nook and corner of the Indian sub-continent and in any field and help them to come up with sincerity and honesty.\n\nThe 30% reservation to be introduced in the Parliament is all an eyewash and without any meaning as the politicians sitting there have not political will to do any justice to the woman in India.I can only advise these people to make officially 50% reservation for women in each and every field.\n\nIt is high time,let us all get together and make the Indian soil worth living ever happily with a smiling and a happy woman and stop all stupid desires of having only a male child.Every female is not only good but better than the male.Let this message also go the rural India to wake up unless it is too late.Let us change our thinking be good and reasonable atleast to start with.
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While I find your rag comment to be highly offensive, I must admit that even as a woman, I'd have to say I've been wondering what's up myself. Seems a lot of women these days are so huffy, including me. PMS left me a week ago and I'm still a raging lunatic for no reason. It's probably due to some stress at work. Perhaps men need to earn more so we can chill at home, but that sounds anti-women's movement. Oh well, I'd rather be a Relaxed Housewife than a Raging Lunatic workaholic.
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well corruption i agree is a problem which india today but then who isnt facing this problem.\n\nits just that in other country they take a more sophisticated "avtaar"(look).\n\nbut saying that i cant shy away from the fact that india remains one of the most corrupt countries of the world.\n\n\none way to reduce can be first by instilling fear of the law in the minds of government servants so that they think twice before asking for bribe.  for this the investigation agency have to pull up their socks as the conviction rate for corruption cases is pretty low.\n\nand then their salaries should be increased so that they can make their ends meet.
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WHY LOOK FOR ALL USED MATERIAL.\n\nUSE UR OWN MIND SEARCH THE NET\nREAD BOOKS ON SUCH TOPICS LIKE\n\n1.         FEMALE INFANTICIDE\n2.         FEMALE FOETICIDE\n3.         DOMESTIC VIOLENCE\n4.         DOWRY HARASSMENT\n5.         SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORKPLACE\n6.         GENDER BIAS\n7.         DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION
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Well there are things that women need to know. There are some jobs that women can get. Jobs such as nurses and secretaries. Getting a good job means having a great education.
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Could it be the dispute between mothers & non-mothers and how each percieve working after child-bearing.\n\nSome say women should be able to work and be treated the exact same and have the same expected of them as their co-workers.  Others argue that it would be better for society if mums could stay home and focus on raising their children insteadl.