{"id":214,"date":"2020-04-23T10:29:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T10:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/?p=214"},"modified":"2021-01-17T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T12:16:51","slug":"womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s equality issues in Public Spheres."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Charul Mishra, Rohit Pradhan | 30th September<\/strong> <strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_47_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"ez-toc-toggle-icon-1\"><label for=\"item-6a227847b1429\" aria-label=\"Table of Content\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;direction:ltr;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><input  type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item-6a227847b1429\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#Introduction\" title=\"Introduction\">Introduction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#Equality_issue_that_persists_in_the_society\" title=\"Equality issue that persists in the society\">Equality issue that persists in the society<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#I_Female_Infanticide\" title=\" I.\u00a0Female Infanticide\"> I.\u00a0Female Infanticide<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#II_Tradition_of_sonship\" title=\"II. Tradition of sonship\">II. Tradition of sonship<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#i_PREFERENCE_FOR_SON\" title=\"i.\u00a0PREFERENCE FOR SON\">i.\u00a0PREFERENCE FOR SON<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#III_Constitutional_provision_to_achieve_desired_constructive_goals\" title=\"III. Constitutional provision to achieve desired constructive goals\">III. Constitutional provision to achieve desired constructive goals<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#_IV_Gender_pay_gap_and_Gender_employment_gap\" title=\"\u00a0IV. Gender pay gap and Gender employment gap\">\u00a0IV. Gender pay gap and Gender employment gap<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#V_Women_Equality_in_Education\" title=\"V.\u00a0 Women Equality in Education\">V.\u00a0 Women Equality in Education<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#i_Schools\" title=\"i. Schools\">i. Schools<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#_ii_Secondary_Education\" title=\"\u00a0\u00a0ii. Secondary Education\">\u00a0\u00a0ii. Secondary Education<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#iii_Post_Secondary_Education\" title=\"iii. Post Secondary Education\">iii. Post Secondary Education<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#Narrowing_Gender_Biasness_in_Education\" title=\"Narrowing Gender Biasness in Education\">Narrowing Gender Biasness in Education<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#I_Sarva_Siksha_Abhiyan\" title=\"I. Sarva Siksha Abhiyan\">I. Sarva Siksha Abhiyan<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#II_Schemes_adopted_by_Chattisgarh_government\" title=\"II. Schemes adopted by Chattisgarh government\">II. Schemes adopted by Chattisgarh government<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-15\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#i_Free_textbooks\" title=\"i. Free textbooks\">i. Free textbooks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-16\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#ii_Mid_Day_Meal\" title=\"ii. Mid Day Meal\">ii. Mid Day Meal<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-17\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#iii_Free_Uniform\" title=\"iii. Free Uniform \">iii. Free Uniform <\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-18\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#iv_Saraswati_Bicycle_Scheme\" title=\"iv.\u00a0Saraswati Bicycle Scheme\">iv.\u00a0Saraswati Bicycle Scheme<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-19\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#v_Mukhyamantri_Amrut_Yojana\" title=\"v.\u00a0Mukhyamantri Amrut Yojana\">v.\u00a0Mukhyamantri Amrut Yojana<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-20\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#vi_Porta_Cabins\" title=\"vi.\u00a0Porta Cabins\">vi.\u00a0Porta Cabins<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-21\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#Crimes_against_women\" title=\"Crimes against women\">Crimes against women<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-22\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#I_Sexual_Harassment\" title=\"I. Sexual Harassment\">I. Sexual Harassment<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-23\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#i_Marital_Rape\" title=\"i. Marital Rape\">i. Marital Rape<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-24\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#II_Dowry\" title=\"II. Dowry\">II. Dowry<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-25\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#III_Cyber_Bulling\" title=\"III.\u00a0\u00a0Cyber Bulling \">III.\u00a0\u00a0Cyber Bulling <\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-26\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#Women%E2%80%99s_reservation_in_politics\" title=\"Women\u2019s reservation in politics\">Women\u2019s reservation in politics<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-27\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#I_Vicious_Cycle_of_Incompetency\" title=\"I.\u00a0Vicious Cycle of Incompetency\">I.\u00a0Vicious Cycle of Incompetency<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-28\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#II_Other_Countries_with_women%E2%80%99s_reservation\" title=\"II. Other Countries with women\u2019s reservation\">II. Other Countries with women\u2019s reservation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-29\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#III_Setting_the_time_limit_for_Reservation\" title=\"III.\u00a0Setting the time limit for Reservation\">III.\u00a0Setting the time limit for Reservation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-30\" href=\"https:\/\/lexforti.com\/legal-news\/womens-equality-issues-in-public-spheres\/#Final_Conclusion\" title=\"Final Conclusion\">Final Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction\"><\/span><a><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender\nEquality is an important goal now. It is not a fundamental right but it is\nimportant for the stable growth of the society, proper nourishment of human\nrights establishment and peaceful living of all the human beings. Due to legit\nunfortunate reasons, we are not able to develop the way it is marked in the\nlegislation. For the purpose of the count, two main reasons are the\nirresponsible implementation of laws, and no knowledge of legislation to the\nneedy class of people. In Urban Areas of the country, gender inequality is not\nseen as much as seen in the rural areas. That are various differences which\ncreate such inequality like economic, social, political, and legal. Although\nthere are so many legislations made in India to protect women\u2019s rights but still\nthere a lacuna left in the form of gender disparity which diverge the\nimplementation of the laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Equality_issue_that_persists_in_the_society\"><\/span><a><strong>Equality issue that persists in the society<\/strong><\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>India\nhas the potential to carry on an exceptional growth, and recently government\nhas announced that, India will achieve 5 trillion $ economy by 2024.<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> It\nis very hard to wonder, that country with half the potential will ever succeed\nin doing this, a country where half of the population is discriminated and\nunderestimated, how come a country will ever succeed to achieve such goal. There\nare many issues that surrounds the potential of the growth of country with\nobstacles, which are discussed below-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_Female_Infanticide\"><\/span><a> I.\u00a0Female Infanticide<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower\nsex-ratio has always been a concern and that is the reason Female Infanticide\nhas always drawn attention to itself.<a href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a>\nFrom various surveys including in the places like Assam, Mysore, Manipur and\nsome of the tribes in Bengal, it has come to the sight that the act of Female\nInfanticide is still followed in India.<a href=\"#_ftn3\">[3]<\/a>\nThe main reasons for such act are said be either superstitions or for\nprotection of the tribe.<a href=\"#_ftn4\">[4]<\/a>\nFemale Infanticide is a deliberate and premeditated act of killing a female\nchild within one year of its delivery either unswervingly by using fatal\norganic and inorganic chemicals or secondarily by deliberate carelessness to\nfeed the new-born by either one of the parents or other family members or\nneighbours. There were many reasons which withheld such practise in the country\nlike dowry system, lack economic independence, social customs and traditions\nthat have relegated the female to a secondary status.<a href=\"#_ftn5\">[5]<\/a>\nThrough various past reports, it is reported that Female infanticide has\nexisted since 1789 which had spread from Rajasthan to various other stated like\nGujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar etc.<a href=\"#_ftn6\">[6]<\/a>\nThough, afterwards, various national policies and laws were made regarding the\nact which recognized the rights of the girl child to equal opportunity, to be\nfree from hunger, illiteracy, ignorance and exploitation.<a href=\"#_ftn7\">[7]<\/a>\nAlso, in 1997, the government launched a Balika Samriddhi Yojana to raise the\noverall status of the girl child.<a href=\"#_ftn8\">[8]<\/a>\nAlthough, there are various strong legislation to remove such act of society,\nthese still prevail and could not remove from the root level because it is not\nonly about the gender equality in the economic development but there are\nvarious socio-cultural factors which could not be removed even after so many\nschemes and policies.<a href=\"#_ftn9\">[9]<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"II_Tradition_of_sonship\"><\/span><a>II. Tradition of sonship<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"i_PREFERENCE_FOR_SON\"><\/span><a>i.\u00a0PREFERENCE FOR SON<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Since\nthe time immemorial, parental preference for male child has become a tradition\nin India. It has resulted in female feticides, depriving education, health, and\ncare to female children. It has adversely affected the gender ratio in the\ncountry. It is estimated that globally at-least 1.1 crore girls goes missing\ndue to female feticide and shockingly 0.5 crore girls alone goes missing in\nIndia only.<a href=\"#_ftn10\">[10]<\/a>\nGovernment report says that 6.3 crore women are missing across India and 2.1\ncrore girls are considered as unwanted by their families.<a href=\"#_ftn11\">[11]<\/a>\nIndian states like Haryana as per <em>NITI\nAYOG<\/em> report 2013-15 where gender ratio is 831 is considered to be having a\nvery low gender ratio but shockingly the capital of country Delhi, has the\ngender ratio of 869 and in Daman and Diu it goes to as low as 618,<a href=\"#_ftn12\">[12]<\/a>\nhere north eastern state can be an ideal for other states, as here there is\ncomparatively higher sex ratio than other states.<a href=\"#_ftn13\">[13]<\/a>\nThe main reason that parent prefer son over daughter lies in the ideology that\nsons are investment and daughters are liabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Criminalizing\nsex determination during pregnancy though is a step to deter such heinous act,\nbut there down lies a very strong rooted ideology that need to be removed to\nstop such act. Even in educated family female feticides happen; hence a\nconstructive step is the need of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"III_Constitutional_provision_to_achieve_desired_constructive_goals\"><\/span><a>III. Constitutional provision to achieve desired constructive goals<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Article\n15 of Indian Constitution states<a href=\"#_ftn14\">[14]<\/a>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of\nreligion, race, caste, sex or place of birth<\/strong>.\u2014<em>(1) The\nState shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion,\nrace, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(3) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State from making any\nspecial provision for women and children.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article\n15(3) clearly gives the state, power to make provisions that is beneficial for\nupliftment of women in social strata.\u00a0 If\nat every field women\u2019s are given limited preference over men, i.e.,\nreservation; consequently in every field there will be women representation. As\na result the very idea that girls are liability and boys are resourceful will\ndiminish and girls will be on equal footing to that of men. Indian courts have\nbeen very insightful in this regard. Supreme Court in one matter held that even\nreservation of 50% of posts in favour of female candidate not to be an\narbitrary decision.<a href=\"#_ftn15\">[15]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_IV_Gender_pay_gap_and_Gender_employment_gap\"><\/span><a>\u00a0IV. Gender pay gap and Gender employment gap<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gender pay gap<\/strong>\nmeans difference between the earning of men and women, through this parameter\nit can be easily deduced that how the half of the population of country is\ntreated. As per Word Economic Forum (WEF) India ranks 108<sup>th<\/sup> out of\n149 which is considered very low and moreover to that India made no improvement\nin its overall ranking.<a href=\"#_ftn16\">[16]<\/a> According\nto the Monster Salary Index survey women in India earn 19% less than men, which\nmake the current high gender gap, quite evident.<a href=\"#_ftn17\">[17]<\/a>\nIt states that Gender pay gap has narrowed to 1%, but still where the governing\ninstitution has higher ambition of moving the economy to 5 trillion$ economy in\na very short span of time,<a href=\"#_ftn18\">[18]<\/a>\n1% deduction in such gap is not encouraging.\u00a0\nWhile there is plenty of survey and statistical report present for high\nskilled work, there not plenty number of literature and data, which pertains to\nlow skilled works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nthe employment issue is put to the consideration, Period Labour Force Survey\n(PLFS) for 2017-18 released by The Ministry of Statistics and Programme\nImplementation, first of all unemployment rate is sky high and the gender\ndifference in workforce is very high, in state of Bihar only 4% female\nworkforce is there; a place which is 3<sup>rd<\/sup> most populated state in the\ncountry.<a href=\"#_ftn19\">[19]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"V_Women_Equality_in_Education\"><\/span><a>V.\u00a0 Women Equality in Education<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"i_Schools\"><\/span><a>i. Schools<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>UNICEF\nquantifies the Gender Equality in Education Index (GEEI) and attendance rate\nwhich reflects the quality of education, where India has very low performance.<a href=\"#_ftn20\">[20]<\/a> Conditions\nare disappointing in rural areas, where girls continue to have lesser educational\naccess with respect to boys.<a href=\"#_ftn21\">[21]<\/a> As\nper the study done in 2017 by Santosh Kumar and Adriana D. Kugler,<a href=\"#_ftn22\">[22]<\/a>\none of the crucial factor that taints the chance of a girl to continue its\nstudy is the family size, where upon increment in family size chance of\ncontinuing school is taken off from girl member of the family and the same\nstudy shows that, education level of mother in a family plays a crucial role,\nwhere in the family mother has achieved good educational exposure, there in\nthat family, chances are high that girl from that family will also be exposed\nto such enigma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_ii_Secondary_Education\"><\/span><a>\u00a0\u00a0ii. Secondary Education<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Most\nof the drop out are from the transition phase, i.e., the phase where student\nshifts from primary to secondary educational phase. Most of the female drop out\nfrom their studies after crossing the age of twelve,<a href=\"#_ftn23\">[23]<\/a>\nwhich is due to many social reasons, one study suggest that among 20% of the\nstudent who take drop after primary schools, 70% are females.<a href=\"#_ftn24\">[24]<\/a>\nThe same study when interviewed the concerned group, reason that came out for\nthe dropping out is <em>social reason,\ndistance, security of girl <\/em>etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"iii_Post_Secondary_Education\"><\/span><a>iii. Post Secondary Education<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Girl\u2019s\nparticipation in higher studies is a dynamic phenomenon, it has changed in the\ncourse of time, studies suggest that though girls\u2019 participation has gone up in\nthe higher education, but still there exist disparity.<a href=\"#_ftn25\">[25]<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nstudy states that, while if overall disciplines are taken into consideration,\nboys are having uniform participation across it, while girls are concentrated\nin selected few disciplines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Narrowing_Gender_Biasness_in_Education\"><\/span><a><strong>Narrowing Gender Biasness in Education<\/strong><\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nideology that persisted for so long that, daughters are responsibility and sons\nare investments, is one of the gruesome factors responsible for parent\u2019s\ninclination to impart quality education to their son compared to daughters\nwhere either she has to drop off from her educational institution or is never\nadmitted in any educational institution. If 2011 census is taken into\nconsideration, literacy rate of the country is 74.04% where male literacy rate\nis 80.9% and 65.46% for female.<a href=\"#_ftn26\">[26]<\/a>\nThis sheer difference in imparting of quality education to both gender hold\nbacks the country\u2019s overall growth and put it among countries like Bangladesh,\nSudan, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nregional aspect is taken, considering the current political ambition that\ngovernment is carrying, to achieve the position of a super power in world;\nIndia still lies far behind its neighbors like China, where literacy rate of\nage 65 years and older is 73.91 where male counterpart has 86.06% and female\ncounterpart has 62.64% this difference was narrowed down and it reflects in the\nage group of 15 years and older where male literacy rate is 97.48% and female\nliteracy rate is 92.71%, specifically literacy rate for the age group of (15 \u2013\n24) year old for male is 99.69% and that of female is 99.59%.<a href=\"#_ftn27\">[27]<\/a>\nThis is the level of political commitment which was made and which is now\nmaking China literate and advance. Similarly, India\u2019s neighbor Sri-Lanka showed\nsimilar changes; where difference in literacy rate among both gender decreased\nto zero and further literacy rate of women surpassed that of men, which was\nprosperous six decades before.<a href=\"#_ftn28\">[28]<\/a>\nMyanmar astonishingly brings the literacy rate difference from 21% to 1%.<a href=\"#_ftn29\">[29]<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas\nIndia\u2019s gender disparity had no such improvement, which has been witnessed by\nIndia\u2019s neighbor, hence the lack of political commitment to bring females to\neducation stream has to be overcome and be dealt accordingly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_Sarva_Siksha_Abhiyan\"><\/span><a>I. Sarva Siksha Abhiyan<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially\nto bring all the stakeholders to elementary level, 86<sup>th<\/sup> amendment\nwas done in the Constitution making education for children between the age of 6\nand 14 free and compulsory, though it was back in 1993-1994 when government\nlaunched District Primary Education Programme (herein after referred as DPEP).<a href=\"#_ftn30\">[30]<\/a>\nHere central government and state government both mutually worked for efficient\nworking of DPEP which aimed to achieve the objective of universal primary\neducation; by distributing the expenditure in between central and state\ngovernment, where central government was bearing 85% of cost and state\ngovernment was bearing 15% of cost. External agencies like UNICEF, World Bank\nand Department for International Development also contributed to the central\ngovernment to continue DPEP.<a href=\"#_ftn31\">[31]<\/a>\nThough DPEP didn\u2019t do well in improving the number of\nenrollment of girls in school but overall it was an initiative which\nlaid down the precedent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After\nDPEP, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan came to existence, it was 1<sup>st<\/sup> April 2010\nwhen, Right to Education came to force, it is then believed that after the\nenactment of Right to Education that Sarva Siksha Abhiyan got strengthened and\ngot the legal force for implementation purpose.<a href=\"#_ftn32\">[32]<\/a>\nSo it can\u2019t be said that no steps had been taken to strengthen the ideology\ndecreasing the literacy rate gap between both the genders, but it were more of\nineffective, gradually the gender gap in literacy rate narrowed, but to a\nnon-astonishing level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"II_Schemes_adopted_by_Chattisgarh_government\"><\/span><a>II. Schemes adopted by Chattisgarh government<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chattisgarh\nwhich was formed in 1<sup>st<\/sup> November 2000 had no remarkable literacy\nwithin the state, state didn\u2019t had good education infrastructure. As per 2001\ncensus report, state had 65.18% literacy rate, where male and female literacy\nrate were 77.86% and 52.40% respectively. <a href=\"#_ftn33\">[33]<\/a>\nBy the time of 2011 census, where the gender gap earlier was 25.46 it reduced\nto 20.<a href=\"#_ftn34\">[34]<\/a>\nThis reduction though not settles an astonishing example or precedent but,\nimportantly the schemes that has been initiated by the state has the potential\nto narrow done such difference to even greater extent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"i_Free_textbooks\"><\/span><a>i. Free textbooks<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>One\nof the factors that parents consider before putting their wards to schools is\nto evaluate the total cost they will be incurring, books now-a-days are very\nexpensive<a href=\"#_ftn35\">[35]<\/a>,\nwhich demoralizes the potential intent of the parent to put their ward to\nschools, especially the girl child who is abused of parental ignorance hence,\nby \u2018free textbook distribution programme\u2019<a href=\"#_ftn36\">[36]<\/a>\nwhere free books are distributed till class 8<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Here one of the major obstacle which parents\nmight had experienced is removed. Hence it is one of the scheme that is\ncommendable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"ii_Mid_Day_Meal\"><\/span><a>ii. Mid Day Meal<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>One\nof the lucrative assistance that government is providing is that, parents can\nbe carefree for their wards while they are in school, they will be getting free\nand healthy food, which sort out the problem, moreover in poor families where,\ngetting food for family is a challenge, there mid day meal can be said as a\nassistance that government is providing, which other way around is benefitting\nthe family economically. Currently mid day meal scheme covers 42904 schools as\nof 20<sup>th<\/sup> May 2019.<a href=\"#_ftn37\">[37]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"iii_Free_Uniform\"><\/span><a>iii. Free Uniform<\/a> <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly\nto assist and ease the financial burden of parents, state government came up\nwith the said scheme, according to which every girl student of schedule caste and\nschedule tribe community studying in between class I to V are provided free\nuniform.<a href=\"#_ftn38\">[38]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"iv_Saraswati_Bicycle_Scheme\"><\/span><a>iv.\u00a0Saraswati Bicycle Scheme<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Now\nthe main problem that persisted was that, there was high dropout, especially\nfor female students in their secondary level, to cope up with that, government\nhas formulated the scheme where, cycles are distributed to Schedule\nCaste\/Schedule Tribe\/ Below Poverty Line girls, who are enrolled in class 9<sup>th<\/sup>.\nThis scheme encourages the female student to continue their education after\ncompleting their preliminaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"v_Mukhyamantri_Amrut_Yojana\"><\/span><a>v.\u00a0Mukhyamantri Amrut Yojana<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nper this scheme, primary school going children are provided with flavoured\nnutritious milk with the objective to eradicate malnutrition in the state,\nthough it don\u2019t target any specific gender, it is for greater good, that will\neventually reflect upon number of children joining in primary school.<a href=\"#_ftn39\">[39]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"vi_Porta_Cabins\"><\/span><a>vi.\u00a0Porta Cabins<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Chattisgarh\nhas always been affected by Naxalites, places in Chattisgarh which are affected\nby it often referred as <strong>Left Wing\nExtremism (LWE), <\/strong>in those areas; it becomes very difficult for student to\nhave the friendly environment to continue their education. To counter such\nsituation, government came up with <em>porta\ncabins <\/em>where the educational infrastructure can be created in very less\ntime, so even so if the construction is destroyed by the naxalites, it can be\nrecreated without any considerable cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Crimes_against_women\"><\/span><a><strong>Crimes against women<\/strong><\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_Sexual_Harassment\"><\/span><a>I. Sexual Harassment<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Women\nhave always been treated as the subordinate to the men by the society. With the\nanti-discrimination statutes which have recently adored by the state, have\ngranted the equal rights to the women now.<a href=\"#_ftn40\">[40]<\/a>\nBut, even after the formation and enforcement of legislations and statutes, the\nwomen remain disadvantaged in every place, whether it be the home or the work\nplace or political life. The whole scene of sexual harassment is including\nmisuse of the power and exploitation of the weak.<a href=\"#_ftn41\">[41]<\/a>\nHence, sexual harassment is often taken as result of Sexual Discrimination. It\ngoes without saying that the act of Sexual Harassment violates two of the basic\nfundamental rights which is right to gender equality and right to life and\nliberty.<a href=\"#_ftn42\">[42]<\/a>\nIn our country, there are various codes like Criminal Procedural Code, 1973,\nCode of Civil Code, 1908, Indian Evidence Act, 1872 and Indian Penal Code, 1860\nwhich prescribe various sections and principles which try to give protection to\nthe women in some or the other way against the act of Sexual Harassment.<a href=\"#_ftn43\">[43]<\/a> There\nare various international conventions and treaties which is signed and ratified\nby the country to protect the interests of the women and have become a source\nof law for new legislations with various other significant sources of law like\nprecedents, landmark judicial statement. Though we have sufficient laws against\nthe act of Sexual Harassment, but in most of the cases there are few\ndiscrepancies in the execution of such laws which might be there due to the\nbiasness or money power or the muscle power, which are the most ridiculous\nmeans of diverting the justice to a wrong side and the essence of human rights\nis then banished. Hence, there government should focus on the proper execution\nof present laws rather than focusing on the making the new laws. Secondary,\nthere must be authorised committees and a check system which would record the proper\nfollowing of laws.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"i_Marital_Rape\"><\/span>i. Marital Rape<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Rape\nis an unlawful sex without assent of a man because of physical drive or\ndangers, or due to deceitful demonstration of perpetuator. In India rape by an\noutsider is a penal offense under section 375 and 376 of IPC.<a href=\"#_ftn44\">[44]<\/a>\nShockingly, it unequivocally avoids marital rape from ambit of conviction.\nMarital rape is sex by spouse with his better half without her assent or by\ncompel or danger.<a href=\"#_ftn45\">[45]<\/a>\nPatriarchal framework that administers Indian families has constantly\nconsidered ladies as unimportant property of her significant other or guardian.<a href=\"#_ftn46\">[46]<\/a>\nSo rape was considered as theft of ladies and wrong against spouse or guardian.\nThis belief system has impacted our legislatures in disregarding offense of\nspouse rape by giving it shield of wedding right of the spouse and by this they\nare noiselessly tolerating that ladies are only a protest of sexual\nsatisfaction of her better half with no will of her own over her sexuality.\nThis discernment has laid down ladies&#8217; entitlement to uniformity and equity. Today\nnumerous nations have either established marital rape laws, revoked marital\nrape special cases or have laws that do not recognize marital rape and ordinary\nrape. This demonstrates marital rape is currently perceived as an infringement\nof human rights. In 2006, it was assessed that marital rape is an offense\nrebuffed under the criminal law in no less than 100 nations and India is not\none of them. Despite the fact that there have been a lot of enactments and\ninstitutions gone in India as to brutality against lady in her own particular\nhouse, similar to laws against female child murder and abusive behavior at\nhome, marital rape has neglected to pick up acknowledgment as a wrongdoing\naccording to strategy producers. Marital rape, in India, is holed up behind the\nhallowed drapes of marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"II_Dowry\"><\/span><a>II. Dowry<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dowry\noften is seen as status symbol, by both the families, i.e., groom and bride\u2019s\nfamily.\u00a0 Those parents who are reluctant\nto spend on education, opposing partition to property for daughters, who have\ntheir rights for such, lavishly spend upon daughter\u2019s marriage. This is not the\nsudden apprise of emotion that waves up during the marriage suddenly but, just\nto satisfy the expectation of the society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bihar\nis considered to be on the number one spot when it comes to the dowry deaths.<a href=\"#_ftn47\">[47]<\/a>It\nis a matter of shame and very serious\nconcern. Table 1.0 shows the number of dowry deaths that happened in Bihar in\nthe span of 9 years, i.e., from 2001 to 2009. If we see, in 2001 it was 859, by\nthe end of 2011 dowry death graph reached to a whopping\n1154!, which is of 34.342% of annual growth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lexforti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Capture.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1344\"\/><figcaption> Table 1 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"III_Cyber_Bulling\"><\/span>III.\u00a0\u00a0Cyber Bulling <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Although\ndevelopment in technology has empowered the world with various powers of\nsurvival, Cyberbullying restricts all the opportunities offered by\ndigitalization and technology of the present day.<a href=\"#_ftn48\">[48]<\/a>\nMillions of women and girls around the world are subjected to deliberate\nviolence because of their gender.<a href=\"#_ftn49\">[49]<\/a>\nThe growing reach on internet, the rapid spread of mobile information and\ncommunications technologies (ICTs), and the wide diffusion of social media have\npresented new opportunities and enabled various efforts to address Violence\nagainst women and girls.<a href=\"#_ftn50\">[50]<\/a>\nThe respect and security of girls and women must at all times be front and\ncentre of those in charge of producing and providing the content, technical\nbackbone and enabling environment of our digital society.<a href=\"#_ftn51\">[51]<\/a>\nThe increasing spread of the Internet frames the urgency for effective legal\nand social controls on attitudes and criminal behaviour online.<a href=\"#_ftn52\">[52]<\/a>\nRigorous oversight and enforcement of rules banning cyber violence against\nwomen and girls on the Internet is going to be a <em>conditio sine qua non<\/em> if it is to become a safe, respectful and\nempowering space for them. Failure to do so will clip the potential of the\nInternet as an engine for gender equality and women\u2019s empowerment. The sheer\nvolume of cyber violence against women and girls has severe social and economic\nimplications for women and girls.9 Threats of rape, death, and stalking put a\npremium on the emotional bandwidth and put a stress on financial resources (in\nterms of legal fees, online protection services, and missed wages, among others).\nThe direct and indirect costs to societies and economies are also significant,\nas needs for health care, judicial and social services rise and productivity\ngoes down with the sense of peace and security required for business to thrive.\nCyber Violence against girls and women can also have adverse impact on the\nexercise of and advocacy for free speech and other human rights. There are\nvarious imperatives in eliminating cyber bullying like prevention,\nimplementation of safeguards to secure safe online spaces, and sanctions. A\ncollective global effort, led by the United Nations system, has put in place\nthe pillars for a 21st century sustainable development paradigm. The\nSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) establishing the global development\npriorities for the next 15 years includes a goal on gender equality, which\nplaces women\u2019s access to technology for their empowerment as one of the core\nindicators for progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Women%E2%80%99s_reservation_in_politics\"><\/span><a><strong>Women\u2019s reservation in politics<\/strong><\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Law\nmaking bodies can be considered one of the most influential and important organ\nin the country. Having a proper representation by women in these bodies will\nresult in such law making that will have the potential to fill the gap of\ngender inequality. While various political parties demand reservations for various\ncastes, when <strong>women\u2019s reservation bill<\/strong>\ncame to existence that demanded 33% reservation for women in Lok Sabha and in\nall state legislative assembly, though it was passed by Rajya Sabha,<a href=\"#_ftn53\">[53]<\/a>\nit was never voted in Lok Sabha.<a href=\"#_ftn54\">[54]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even\nafter seven decades of independence, women\u2019s participation in Indian politics\nis poor, Globally India ranks 20<sup>th<\/sup> from below in terms of women\u2019s\nparticipation in parliament.<a href=\"#_ftn55\">[55]<\/a> Due\nto 33% reservation in Panchayati Raj Institutions, there is considerably a\nhealthy participation.<a href=\"#_ftn56\">[56]<\/a>\nIndia ranks 130<sup>th<\/sup> on Human Development Index,<a href=\"#_ftn57\">[57]<\/a>\nwhile 108<sup>th<\/sup> in Gender Gap Index.<a href=\"#_ftn58\">[58]<\/a>\nIndia had a very rich history, considering the current scenario which reflects\nleast participation from a gender due to archaic ideology and to bring a\npositive change there should be women\u2019s reservation in the law making\ninstitution. It has been evident that after the increase in women\u2019s\nrepresentation in Panchayati system, the performance and development of that\nvillage has increased,<a href=\"#_ftn59\">[59]<\/a>\nfigure given below provides the statistics for the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lexforti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1345\"\/><figcaption> Figure 1 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nshows that in villages after reservation been made for women there has been\nincrease in drinking water facilities, irrigation pumps and sanitation across\nthe chart. In the state like Bihar, after the state legislator\u2019s move to\nreserve seat for women in Panchayat, there has been significant improvements in\nvarious segments.<a href=\"#_ftn60\">[60]<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_Vicious_Cycle_of_Incompetency\"><\/span><a>I.\u00a0Vicious Cycle of Incompetency<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nis a psychological concept known as Priming<a href=\"#_ftn61\">[61]<\/a>,\nwhere if a particular input is provided continuously then a set pattern of\nbehavior is the outcome. If there is meager representation of women in law\nmaking bodies, which persist for long, assumption will be made then that women\nare incapable of being in such body and that makes it substantially more\ndifficult for them to enter into national politics; and this leads to vicious\ncycle of presumed incompetency. Hence to break the vicious cycle, there has to\nbe induction of women through reservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"II_Other_Countries_with_women%E2%80%99s_reservation\"><\/span><a>II. Other Countries with women\u2019s reservation<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Scandinavian\ncountry Norway has imposed women\u2019s reservation in public limited company with\n40% of it\u2019s board member being reserved for women, after which those companies\nhave become more professional and improved their performance as well.<a href=\"#_ftn62\">[62]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nPakistan 17.5% of the seats are reserved for women in National Assembly,\nBangladesh has 13% of its seats of Parliament reserved for women candidate,\nNepal has 33% reservation for women.<a href=\"#_ftn63\">[63]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asian\ncountries like Indonesia,<a href=\"#_ftn64\">[64]<\/a>\nKyrgyzstan<a href=\"#_ftn65\">[65]<\/a>\nand Uzbekistan<a href=\"#_ftn66\">[66]<\/a>\nhave 30% quota for women in their law making bodies. In Uganda, parliamentary\nseats of 39 districts are reserved for women.<a href=\"#_ftn67\">[67]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"III_Setting_the_time_limit_for_Reservation\"><\/span><a>III.\u00a0Setting the time limit for Reservation<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nthere is no time barrier for caste based reservation, most of the time it is\nused more often for political gain rather than to fulfill the objective of\ncaste based reservation. Certain parameters shall be made and later on when all\nthose parameters are fulfilled then gender based reservation need to be\nabolished in its strictest sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Final_Conclusion\"><\/span><a><strong>Final Conclusion<\/strong><\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence,\nif all states put their efforts to consolidate the plan to narrow down the\ngender gap in the field of education, then it is highly possible to achieve\nsuch results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender Equality is an important\ngoal now. It is not a fundamental right but it is important for the stable\ngrowth of the society, proper nourishment of human rights establishment and\npeaceful living of all the human beings. Due to legit unfortunate reasons, we\nare not able to develop the way it is marked in the legislation. For the\npurpose of the count, two main reasons are the irresponsible implementation of\nlaws, and no knowledge of legislation to the needy class of people. In Urban\nAreas of the country, gender inequality is not seen as much as seen in the\nrural areas. That is various differences which create such inequality like\neconomic, social, political, and legal. Although there are so many legislations\nmade in India to protect women\u2019s rights but still there a lacuna left in the\nform of gender disparity which diverge the implementation of the laws. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> India Today Web Desk\nNew DelhiJuly 6, 2019UPDATED: July 6 &#038; 2019 16:10 Ist, <em>PM Modi explains\nhow India will become $5 trillion economy in 5 years<\/em>, India Today ,\nhttps:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/pm-modi-varanasi-5-trillion-economy-budget-1563362-2019-07-06\n(last visited Jul 8, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> Therese Hesketh &#038;\nZhu Wei Xing, <em>Abnormal sex ratios in human populations: Causes and\nconsequences<\/em>, 103 Proc. Natl. Acad.\nSci. U. S. A. 13271\u201313275 (2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> T. C. 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