Mention different aspects of life in which women are discriminated or disadvantaged in India.

The different aspects of life in which women are discriminated or disadvantaged in India are:

1. Education — The literacy rate among women is only 54 per cent compared with 76 per cent among men. Similarly, a smaller proportion of girl students go for higher studies. Girls perform better in than boys. But they drop out because parents prefer to spend their resources for their boys’ education rather than spending equally on their sons and daughters.
2. Wages — The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 provides that equal wages should be paid to equal work. However in almost all areas of work, from sports and cinema, to factories and fields, women are paid less than men, even when both do exactly the same work.
3. Desire for Male Child — In many parts of India, parents prefer to have sons and find ways to have the girl child aborted before she is born. Such sex-selective abortion led to a decline in child sex ratio (number of girl children per thousand boys) in the country to merely 919.