Women are the most disadvantaged members of the Indian population. Almost twice as many girls die before the age of five than boys. 40% of India’s women are literate compared to 64 percent males. Only 43 percent of Indian girls attend primary school compared to 62 percent of boys.
Though India has made progress in reforming laws that protect women from old cruel traditions like dowry deaths, sati (the burning of a widow on the husband’s funeral pyre), the situation of women is still alarming. Abduction of women , sexual harassment, trafficking of women and children and domestic violence
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