A Study on Discrimination Faced By the Women in India

In a world where brutality against women is considered just to show the patriarchal value and it is in society, these ideals of men pose the utmost challenge in cutting sexual harassment. This is not a problem that happens only in India, every country in all over the world is facing this issue today. The level of confidence and security is lacking in them. Even though we have certain developments in laws of countries all over the world to protect women from sexual harassment and molestation at home, educational institutions, working places and at public places etc. But the main problem with Indian legislature is that, they are not preventive in nature. They bring up some laws only after the happening of some incidents. The best example is the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 which came into existence only after the landmark judgment of Visakha V/s.  State of Rajasthan. Therefore, the main intention of this paper is to scrutinize the gender discrimination in India in demographic social, economic and political context. The chances given for men and women to access to decision-making in organizations are not always equal. There is a definite division of labour between men and women, with each assigning certain chores to the other. This study examines discrimination faced by women in India, including its different manifestations and causes. This study also discusses the importance of women in development, legislations that improved the status of women, and some suggestions to such problems etc.