1. Introduction
“The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made form his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him but out of his side to be equal to him.”
‘Being a woman is terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
Joseph Conrad
“Violence against women manifestation of historically, unequal power relation between men and women, which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to prevention of full advancement of women”
(UN declaration 1993)
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle
“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
The basic message of every divine message is always there to make a man. All are equal in the divine sight. But we men, having beliefs in the commands of divinity, do not materialize them. These differences have made our green world a bloody some. Women rights around the world are an important indicator to understand the global well-being. Despite tremendous changes of the 20th century, discrimination and violence against women remains fully rooted in cultures around the world. The most widely cited reason for gender inequality is the developing countries relates to the social customs, values, traditions and beliefs. Social exclusion, honor killing, harrrasemant in offices, feudal exploitation, female genital multination, restricted mobility and early marriages are the issues that deny the fundamental rights of woman. Although it is a global issue but it is more prevalent in the developing countries where inequalities include both discrimination and disempowerment of women.
The question on how gender inequality shapes peoples life is on one that has been echoing widely through minds of modern society in recent decades. The biological difference between men and women constitute as one of the main reason this inequality. The males were always branded the breadwinners of the family, whilst a female’s place was remained at home. Throughout the history, Women keep of fighting for their equal rights, opportunities, place and treatment. Although women’s inferior status to men exist in almost all developing countries like India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Burma and also in central Asian states but the reasons, intensity, shape and manifestation differ seeing the circumstances quite substantially as we move from one socio-economic class and region to another. The inability of women to make their own life choices that is the root of many injustices they suffer.
The afflicted world in which we live is characterized by deeply unequal sharing of the burden of adversities between women and men. In ancient times and even now at some places women are known as the root cause of all evils. Top of the list are the socio-economic constraints that compels a woman to even sell herself knowing it will never recover again.