Gender Bias: A Problem Yet To Be Answered
Gender Bias is one of the major social evils which has plagued the Indian society and still continues to do so. We may have progressed technologically or even in other social aspects but gender Bias still prevails. The naysayers may discount this theory, but the fact that Indian society is gender biased speaks for itself. If we look at the figures, Census 2011 showed that the child sex ratio (0-6) stands at 914 females against 1000 which is a decline when we compare it with the Census 2001 report, which stated 927 females for 1000. Activists have estimated that almost a staggering eight million female fetuses have been aborted in the past decade. This gender Bias is also reflected in the fact that the literacy for female stands at around 65% whereas for men it is 83%.One reason for such low literacy of the female is because of the fact that the families consider that educating a girl child is a waste as ultimately she has to marry and live with her husband. This bias has been