Fight against Child Marriage in India Marriage is a celebration in India‚ but unfortunately so is child marriage. Although we have a statute since 1929 to restrain the same‚ the power of that legislation in controlling this social evil is dismal. Interestingly‚ in the era of Chandrayan‚ we repeatedly hear cases of Child Marriages. Child marriage is a stigma on the forehead of our society. In a recent case‚ a widow and mother of six children married her 12-year-old daughter to a 35-year-old man in
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Workforce Male Female Total 5‐9 yrs 997384 843136 1840520 10‐14 yrs 5781697 5004288 10785985 15‐19 yrs 20919212 11377995 32297207 Total India 27698293 17225419 44923712 % to total workforce 10.08% 13.55% 11.18% Total workforce (all ages) 274783249 127083239 401866488 the children upto 14yrs in the workforce is 12626505 = 12.62 millions = child labour in 2001 (graph) 11% of the workforce of india is child labour. One in every 10 workers in India is a child! If you allocate
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To what extent do we agree that there are differences in ‘male’ and ‘female’ speech? Ever since time began‚ men and women have been perceived differently socially‚ intellectually and emotionally. Men are perceived to be strong‚ dependable‚ responsible‚ dominant and are providers while women are perceived to be fragile‚ nurturers‚ subordinate and compassionate. Men ventured into the jungles with fellow men to hunt for food and made shelter while women gathered vegetables and fruit‚ bore and
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commanding position in a family is held by the eldest earning male member. He consults other adult members on important issues‚ but it is his decision that ultimately prevails. However‚ a lot of importance is also given to the advice of the eldest retired members of the family. Women as Homemaker As per the lifestyle of the Indian people‚ it is the duty of a woman to take care of her home. As such‚ from her very childhood‚ a girl child is taught to rustle up mouth-watering dishes by her mother and
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Duran Anthropology 149S 11/05/12 In our society we have many expectations for both genders in terms of the way they speak and act. Not all individuals of their respective gender (male or female) tend always perform the way they are expected‚ many times consciously and on purpose and others unconsciously and unintentionally. This expected gender roles that are performed through language and actions reveal a lot of the gender asymmetries in our society. Many of these asymmetries are revealed in
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all. There are three types of lesbians in the LGBT community: Butch Lesbians‚ Dominant Lesbians or Doms‚ and Femmes. Both the lipstick lesbian and aggressive femme is more accepted in the society than Butch and Dominant Lesbians due to how they portray themselves. Why are masculine women not accepted in society by men‚ but they enjoy the activities of feminine women? Butch Lesbians are masculine‚ dress and live life as men‚ and are attracted to feminine women. While dominant lesbians dress in
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Male-Female Psychological Differences No one would argue the fact that men and women are physically different. The physical differences are rather obvious and most of these can be seen and measured easily. Men‚ who are essentially built for physical confrontation and the use of force‚ usually have greater upper body strength‚ build muscle easily‚ have thicker skin‚ and mostly use the left side of their brain. Women on the other hand‚ have a higher percentage of body fat‚ and a wider pelvis. Women
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the idea of the male gaze in her paper on visual pleasure and narrative cinema. She pinpoints the man as the active pro-tagonist in mainstream Hollywood movies (838). Mulvey believes that the audience‚ regard-less of sex or gender‚ identifies with the “active male figure” (838) due to the means of cine-matography and the rooted patriarchy in Western cultures. Thus‚ women in film become sub-ject to the gaze of the active – the male. However‚ I believe that Mulvey’s notion of the male gaze is not limited
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Male Guppies live under the hammer of both predation (natural selection) and female choice (sexual selection). Each selection force opposes the other. On one hand‚ females tend to choose the brighter male with more conspicuous colouration due to the similarities between bright orange and iridescent colours and the ripped fruit that they consume‚ brighter colours underline what scientist called good genes it might also mean high resistance to parasites and other pathogens. On the other hand‚ natural
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diseases more likely to affect females to a greater extent than males? • Sexually transmitted diseases are more likely to affect females to a greater extent than males because they expose a greater surface area of mucous membrane during sexual contact. Why is a woman more likely to get an STD from an infected male than a male is to get it from an infected female? • A woman is more likely to get an STD from an infected male than a male is to get it from an infected female because females expose
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