Gender divide: the gap widens
From wikigender.org
The gender gap is widening in India.
This reality is depicted in the following article by Shailaja Chandra, former Executive Director of the National Population Stabilisation Fund. Read the article by clicking here.
Some key points to this article:
- The 2009 Global Gender Gap report (published by the World Economic Forum) ranks India the very last on health and survival, and the 114th in the overall ranking.
- Among married women from 25 to 49, only 1 out of 5 women has completed 10 or more years of education
- A vast majority of women continue to be engaged in agricultural operations
- Early marriage continues to be a reality, despite the legal age of marriage of 18.
- Contraception issues
- The need for new laws, for a new Ministry for Gender Equality, and for engaging civil society
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