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| Article Name : | | | GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN ASSAM, A COMPOSITE INDEX ANALYSIS | | Author Name : | | | Korobi Gogoi | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4439 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Even as India celebrated International Women's Day recently, the fairer sex continues to be discriminated against in the country and elsewhere including Thailand, Myanmar, Afghanistan, China, among different social classes, despite laws against their exploitation. Despite the increase in women literacy rate, women across India are discriminated against both at home and workplaces. With Lok Sabha polls round the corner, although there is a demand to field more women candidates, political parties are unlikely to filed handful. The Women's Day celebrations on March 8 across the country brought little cause for cheer to the women of Dhubri district in Assam, which has the lowest female literacy rate and working women in the State, according to the Assam Human Development Report, 2003. The situation is equally depressing in other districts of Assam. In India, discriminatory attitude towards men and women have existed for generations and affect the lives of both genders. The present study examines the status of women in the districts of Assam using some selected indicators. | | Keywords : | | |
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