A STUDY OF GENDER INEQUALITY IN INDIA

In India Gender inequality found among every state, Social class and this inequality have an impact on growth of Indian economy from improving the lives of Indian people. Gender inequality in India is exists in every arena such as education, employment opportunities, income, health, cultural issues, social issues, economic issues and many more. In this paper we try to find out factors which are responsible for gender in equality in India. What are the consequences of gender inequality in economic, social, cultural and legal environment and to key challenge for policy-makers to establish proper Gender equality in India? With the help of review also put forward few relevant tactics to overcome gender inequality and to endorse the dignified position for Indian women.


GENDER INEQUALITY:-
Gender Inequality means consider women inferior as compared to men in different social, economic & political, cultural and legal disciplines. In simply terms this is consider as gender biasness, which in simple term means the gender stratification or making difference a male or a female. According to the United Nations Development Program"s Human Development Report (2017), India ranks 128 out of 189 countries on the gender inequality index-lower than Pakistan (123). The report states that all countries in South Asia, with the exception of Afghanistan, were a better place for women than India, with Sri Lanka (75) topping them all.
Forms of Gender Inequality: -various form of gender inequalities found at present in India. Here is a brief explanation of all the types of gender inequality.
 Impermanence Inequality  Nasality Inequality  Employment Inequality  Ownership Inequality  Special Opportunity Inequality  Basic-Facility Inequality  Household inequality

HISTORY OF GENDER INEQUALITY
In ancient India, an Indian woman was at position of honor and was marked by the term of maata (mother) or Devi (goddess) in the Vedas and Upanishads. Same as Manu Smriti, woman was considered as a precious being and in the early Vedic age, girls were looked after with care. Then practice of bigamy declined the position of woman and in the medieval period, in this period dowry system, and sati system came into existence The new insight in science and technology being the practice of female in India .This has also led to a drop in the female ratio. As per Indian census Kerala state represents the highest sex ratio with 1086 females per 1000 males and Haryana states represents the lowest sex ratio with just 878 women per 1000 males. The main cause of female infanticide practices in few was dowry system. Indian Society is male dominating; a woman still needs the anchor-person and a family. Their dominating nature has led women to walk with their head down. It was all practiced from the beginning and is followed till date. But to remove this disparities the woman's reservation in parliament, is one of the commendable step taken by Government of India In many parts of India, women are viewed as an economic and financial liability despite contribution in several was to our society, economy and by their families. The crime against women is increasing day by day. Domestic Violence, Rape, Sexual harassment, molestation, eveteasing, forced prostitution, sexual-exploitation, at work places are a common affair today. So, it"s an alarming issue for our country.
The major reasons for the gender inequality are identified as the need of a male heir for the family, huge dowry, continuous physical and financial support to girl child, poverty, domesticviolence, farming as major job for poor and the caste system.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Jayachandran, S. (2014), has presented the main cause of gender inequality in developing countries. This paper also discussed the several tools that helps in reduce the gap of women & men inequality.
Dve, D. (1990), has focused on the situation of women of weaker sections of people and to safeguard the interest of these people. Paper focus on the scheduled caste and tribe women"s status in Indian society and also suggested that socioeconomic development plays an important role to reduce the disadvantage of scheduled group women.
Chaudhary, & Sarkar, D. (2012), focused on the main factors that cause the inequality i.e. educational status, work participation, level of gender inequality and suggested some relevant strategies to overcome this gender inequality to promote the deprived women. Raju. (2014), has examined the gender perception in India on the basis of demographic, social, economic and political context. The paper has broadly discussed the issue of gender inequality, women empowerment& reproductive health among women of India. Some measures under taken b the International and national organizations were also discussed in this paper.
Rustagi, (2015), this paper focus that if the participation of women increase in different sector it would eliminating gender inequalities in income & wages, only through the changing attitudes towards womens role & contribution that are protected by different negotiators within the labor market.
Sharma, R.E. (2015), this paper highlights the inequality among the different states of India in today modern era. It has presented gender inequality with the help of some evidences & statistics and signifying the inequality practiced in India & its comparison with other Asian & Western countries.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1)
To find out the gender inequality factors.

2)
To suggests how to reduce gender inequality. well. The religious constitution doesn"t give women equal inheritance; there is a segregation of giving the property to women as they will not be given the property as men can have. Though Islamic constitution permits women having at least half of the property as man, society is reluctant to give the desired property to women let alone giving the equal share.