Gender Discrimination

 Gender discrimination means discriminatory treatment against the female . It begins with the birth of the female child . The worst sufferers are the divorced women and the widows . The main reason of this degrading situation is that the women are not wage - earners and they have to depend on the male members of the family for their livelihood . The other reasons lie in the familial and social attitudes . The parents think that the female child will go away into another family as wife in due course of time and will not contribute anything to the family welfare . The society considers the women to be weaker in strength and wisdom . So , they are faced with discrimination in the spheres of employment and career building . Society also thinks that their duty is to do household chores and rear up children . So , they are not allowed to go out of home and are not given the light of education . As such they cannot develop strong personality and are not associated in decision making . A female child is welcomed in the family with disaffection , because she is regarded as nothing more than a burden and a liability . This problem of gender discrimination can be solved by creating general awareness among the people about the talents and importance of the female and removing social superstition prevailing against them . When the women will be properly educated , they will be in a position to prove their worth and then the unmerited discrimination against them will automatically vanish .