FEMINISM IN INDIA

MADE BY - Jayati Sirohi

Arohee Chauhan
Daksh Nalwa
Jayant Beniwal
 FEMINISM IN INDIA
-A Feminist is a person who support equal rights
for women

-Indian feminists Savitribai Phule (1831–1897)

one of the earliest Indian feminists. Started the
first school for girls in the subcontinent. Tarabai
Shinde (1850–1910) – activist whose work Stri
Purush Tulana is considered the first modern
Indian feminist text.
 RIGHTS FOR WOMEN IN INDIA
• Equal pay.
• Right against harassment in workplace.
• Right against domestic violence.
• Right to have free legal aid.
• Right to ZERO FIR.
 SEXUAL HARRASEMENT
• There has been parallel growth in women’s
participation in business, government, and the
nonprofit sector .However, more rapid and
sustained progress in closing the gender gap in
science, engineering, and medicine is
jeopardized by the persistence of sexual
harassment and its adverse impact on
women’s careers in our nation’s colleges and
universities.
 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
• Women suffer many types of physical and
emotional abuse as a result of illegal actions taken
within the private home, and those who have
experienced some form of domestic violence tend
to have greater long-term mental disorders and
drug dependencies than those who do not. In India,
reducing domestic violence is imperative not only
from an ethical and human rights perspective but
also because of obvious instrumental and
immediate health benefits that would be gained
from such reduction
 EQUAL PAY
• Next up, we also have the issues of gender
discrimination. Women are not considered equal to
men. They face discrimination in almost every
place, whether at the workplace or at home. Even
the little girls become a victim of this
discrimination. The patriarchy dictates a woman’s
life unjustly. Moreover, there is also a lack of
female education and the gender pay gap. Women in
rural areas are still denied education for being a
female. Similarly, women do not get equal pay as
men for doing the same work. On top of that, they
also face workplace harassment and exploitation.
 SEXUAL VIOLENCE
• India is considered to be one of the world’s most
dangerous country for sexual violence against
women. Rape is one of the most common crimes in
India. Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 defines
rape as penile and non-penile penetration in bodily
orifices of a woman by a man, without the consent
of the woman. According to the National Crime
Records Bureau, one woman is raped every 20
minutes in India. Incidents of reported rape
increased 3% from 2011 to 2012. Despite its
prevalence, rape accounted for 10.9% of reported
cases of violence against women in 2016.