Tulsi Prajna 1995 07

SR No.: 524584
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 164
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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working boys in the age group 10 to 14 fell between 1971-1981. It doubled from 4.6 percent to 7.8 percent for girls. There is a 17 percent increase of females from 15 to 19 in the category of "main" (full time) workers. That of males declined by 8 percent. Girls are entering the work force sooner than boys -12 percent are between the agc 15to 19 as compared to 10 percent male figures. But girls between 10 to 19 get lower wage than boys. They do harder, more tedious jobs--rural girls as agricultural labourers, their urban sisters as domestics and within household industries. Some three crore Indian children mostly girls are "unpaid family labour" but there is little data on this kind of domestic work done by girls or for economic activities for which they are not paid directly. Even the National Policy on child labour has not even bothered to separate the problems and needs of the working girls.
In fact, (while girl resching) by the age of 5, many young girls are already participating in the household chores. They fetch water, collect fuel and fodder, tend buffaloes, make cow-dung cakes, clean utensils, take care of their younger siblings and shop. These activities hampered their study and letter forced them to have a low status in the family as well as society. Violence against women and girl-cbild
The widespread violence against women and girl-child is seen as both an indicator and a means of perpetuating the low status of women, which also manifests itself through various, not easily recognised forms of structural violence such as low health status, lack of access to education, employment, and health care facilities etc. In such a dismal scenario wherein women are generally powerless, direct violance against women appears to have the dual function of at once controlling women and perpetuating their subordinate status.
Sexual harassment of women is both the ugly manifestation of women's oppression and the spacific means through which the status asymmetry on lines of gender is reinforced. Violence against women include exploitation, discrimination, upholding of an unequal economic and social structure, the creation of an atmosphere of terror, a threat and reprisal, Rape
Rape is a means of intimidation of all women It is not just a crime of passion or isolated acts of perversion but it is often a political weapon to terrorise all women into submission. It acts as a threat and constantly curtails women's freedom and mobility-public spaces are physically dominated by man which makes it very difficult