GENDER DISCRIMINATION

Abstract

The subject of 'Gender' must be viewed with a sense of history in order to understand it in its true perspective. This writer has been, and continues to be , operational at the grassroots level and would therefore limit the paper to her own quest and experience in the field of women development. Right through three decades she has studied, reflected, discussed, shared and continues to explore the forms of suffering and distress which women have been going through for ages in order to discover and understand the basic concepts which have perpetuated the inferior and subservient place of the woman in a society which considers it self civilised. Genderisation of human beings which the patriarchal system of organisation imposes society is now identified to be the very root of gender discrimination. Therefore, any efforts towards the liberation of the woman can become effective only by addressing the issue of gender.