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Crime and violence against Dalit women is not only a women's issue but also a larger social issue and a human rights violation. Violence against women is a direct result of unequal gender power relations upheld by social institutions.
Dalit women have been active in history though history has not recorded their contribution. They were actively involved in the anti caste and anti untouchability movements from the time of Babasaheb Ambedkar from the 1920s. Today ...
Globalisation is the persistent pervasive over used and under defined buzzword of the new millennium. It implies a free market profit and growth oriented economy. The impact of globalisation upon women has attracted immense attention of scholars and academics the world over with some emphasising the beneficial aspects of globalisation and insisting that women have generally benefited from improvements in the world economy while others stress upon its overall ...
Dalit women face a triple burden of caste, class and gender in which she sums up the plight of Dalit women, highlighting the fact that they are a distinct social group and cannot be masked under the general categories of Women or Dalits. Dalit women suffered unimaginable oppression, not only through caste, but gender too, from which there was no escape. According to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes 2000, approximately seventy five ...
Dalit women are known to have some distinct demographic features and these features have important implications for their socio-economic development, very little attempt has been made to analyse them and relate them to their problems. Dalits are commonly clustered together in segregated hamlets at the edge of a village. They are a small and vulnerable minority in any given region, making resistance to exploitation and violence very difficult. They constitute over ...