Question

what do you mean by women and caste discrimination?

Answer 1

• Women face discrimination and oppression in almost every sphere of public and private life. Their forms may be subtle or non subtle.They face gender segregation at the workplace, they are not considered for promotions over men, a phenomenon called "glass ceiling" describes this situation. In private lives they are victim of patriarchal societies that fathoms on the subordination of women statuses and roles. The social institutions are so structuralised that women get subordinate roles than men. Institutions like family, marriage and rituals like dowry are just weapons to propagate the same. Dowry deaths, female foeticide, acid attacks, eve- teasing, molestation and rapes are some extreme forms of oppression of women.
• Division of the society into four castes such as Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Shudra made on the basis of their occupation is called as caste system. People were not placed in castes but caste was inherited by birth. There was a hierarchy in the society based on the basic four occupations at that time. They were Brahamana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra. One inherited the caste , one was born into.