Gender Is Just A Tag

Gender inequality has been a social issue in India for centuries. That in many parts of India the birth of a girl child is not welcomed is a known fact. It is a known fact too that discrimination starts from even before the girl child is born and sometimes she is killed as a foetus and if she manages to see the light of day she is killed as an infant which makes up the highly skewed child sex ratio where for every 1000 boys in India there are only 908 girls. In such a scenario it is but obvious that for myriad reasons many girls across the country are forced to drop out of school.We  have seen that social problems are ‘social’ in the sense that they capture public attention. They are more than private troubles perhaps through reasons of scale but certainly because they are able to connect with other public issues values and concerns – for example with contemporary concerns about social justice or social order. They are historically and culturally specific – that is they belong to or are visible in particular societies at particular times.