-Vijay Kumar Mishra Gender Discrimination: Alive and Simmering Abstract: This paper is an overview of how gender is socially constructed. It discusses how the biological basis to the differences between the sexes does not explain their lived differences and inequalities. The paper looks at the sex-gender distinction and the different explanations that have been given for the near universal inequality between men and women. A discussion on gender regimes in different domains of social life follows one on how religion and kinship shape particular constructions of gender. Finally the paper discusses how various type of discrimination practices on the basis of gender in social life. Introduction: The differences, inequalities and the division of labour between men and women are often simply treats as consequences of ‘natural’ differences between male and female human...
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