Five Types of Gender Discrimed prevail in our society are:
(i) Girls are deprived of educational opportunities: Being a girl, she is deprived of educational opportunities. The girls may not be enrolled in school. Rather, they are engaged and trained in household works, particularly in rural areas. They do not go to school and compromise with their fate as an assistant to mother in the house of father. After marriage, they perform their duty as house wife in the house of husband.
(ii) Early age marriage: According to a belief prevalent in some sectors, based on myth of our society, the marriage of a daughter must be held before puberty. This belief encouraged child marriage. Child marriage also deprived girls of their educational rights. Child marriage resulted into motherhood at an early age. It created several health problems including early motherhood and maternal mortality.
(iii) Least Chances for higher education: Another belief prevalent in rural India is that the education of girls creates complexity in the settlement of marriage. As such, a good number of parents get their daughters married soon after matriculation.
(iv) Low paid jobs and services: The girls of the poor families have not only to perform work in the house, but they have also to earn wages as maid servants and child labourers. They are exploited physically as well as economically by their master, contractors, agents, etc.
The girl children are also sold in poor families of our society. For the poor families, girls are a source of income. Affluent people purchase girls for working as maid servants, kept and in some cases also as marriage partners.
(v) Childhood is far from full of pleasure, sufferers of negligence, abuse, exploitation and operation: It is generally said that the period of childhood is full of pleasure. But for the girl children in rural India, it is a period of neglect, abuse, exploitation and oppression. No one looks after the health of a girl. Only when the problem becomes acute, she is taken to a doctor or hospital.
Conclusion: Thus we observe deprivation and discrimination of a girl child in food, education and health care.
