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  • Title: Their struggle for equality has begun.
    Author: Mankekar K.
    Journal: Yojana; ; 32(9):23-5. PubMed ID: 12281794.
    Abstract:
    An evaluation of the status of women in India concludes that women have just barely started the struggle for equality, despite newly granted equal rights by the Constitution and a tradition glorifying women as mothers and guardians of family responsibility. The 1st indication of the low status of women is neglect of girl babies and children, and the recent development of female foeticide after amniocentesis. Girls are weaned earlier than boys, weaned on less nourishing food, and 50% more girls are malnourished than boys. While only 65% of girls are enrolled in school, a further 42% drop out before class V. Although 30% of the seats on the Integrated Rural Development Program boards are allotted to women, the lack of literate women has prevented the targets from being filled. Women handle 60% of agricultural operations, and all of it in areas where men migrate to find work, yet women are not allowed to learn to operate agricultural machines. Urban women find their education and training considered part of their dowry, but they are still required to do all the domestic work, and are not allowed to decide on expenditure of the money they make. The existence of dowry, violence against women, and male control of their earnings is evidence that men consider self-reliant women a threat against their superiority. The situation is not entirely bleak, since women are becoming aware that their economic contribution toward national development is important.
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