IMPORTANT CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL PROVISIONS FOR WOMEN IN INDIA The principle of gender equality is enshrined in the Indian Constitution in its Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties and Directive Principles. The Constitution not only grants equality to women, but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favour of women. Within the framework of a democratic polity, our laws, development policies, Plans and programmes have aimed at women’s
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continue with her pregnancy or if she want to terminate it; the pro-choice think that whether the woman wants to keep it or not is a legal choice. On the other hand, the pro-life has somewhat a totally different opinion from the pro-choice people because they believe “life begins at conception; it is morally wrong; and, it can cause medical and psychological damage to women later on life.” therefore, they are against abortion. On abortion, statistics [shows] that since 1973, there have been roughly about
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categories Androphilia and gynephilia Non-heterosexual Pansexuality Polysexuality Queer Research Biological Human female sexuality Human male sexuality Demographics Environment Hetero/homosexual continuum Kinsey scale Klein Grid Neuroscientific Queer studies Sexology Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine Non-human animals Animal sexual behaviour Non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals Homosexual behavior in animals (list) Category Category v t e Part of a series on Lesbian, gay, bisexual
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Case Study: Project Prerna Background: In 2012, India's urban housing shortage was estimated at nearly 19 million households, according to a report by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. According to 2011 Census, of the 11.97 million residents of Mumbai, around 8.68 million people live in slums. These slum dwellers, though residing in urban India, have unique set of characteristics and face various challenges which are as follows: The slum dwellers are not provided affordable
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tendencies of men and women vary from culture to culture. She presents a study that Men can nurture children and women can be the aggressors. Mead presented evidence that both men and women can engage in behaviors different from those in typical Western cultures and still be considered men and women. Mead and then Greer in our second text believe that society assigns roles and stereotypes to genders, and it is based on the sex you are assigned at birth. Where Mead used anthropological study and immersed herself
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As a good mother, there is an inherent instinct to nurture and protect life. Abortion, in essence, contradicts what many women naturally yearn for. Because of these ongoing debates, the argument was taken to court in December 1971.The Roe V. Wade case was brought to Texas, a state where abortion was banned and deemed constitutional. It revolved around a woman named Jane Roe
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CHAPTER TWO THEORETICAL OVERVIEW OF WOMEN DEVELOPMENT 2.1. Introduction The previous chapter (Chapter 1) gave the problem and background of this research. Chapter two will begin by reviewing available literature on studies done on the topic. This chapter will provide a substantially better insight into the dimensions and complexity of the problem and how others have contributed to the topic. A variety of sources will be used to review literature, including research reports, dissertations,
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culture today. On the other end, it is a form of empowerment. And in between is the common person with his or her own take on prostitution as either abuse, a profession, or something a little of both. Alongside this culture of moral, cultural and legal uncertainty and to confound the problem is prostitution’s purported connection to international human trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation. Therefore, on the one hand, prostitution’s reason for being illegal due to immorality may be obsolete
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Did you know that according to the CDC since 1973 there have been a total 58,586,256, legal and documented abortions. Thats doctors who could find the cure for cancer. That’s 58,586,256 lawyers who could stop innocent people going to prison over something they didn’t do. That’s 58,586,256 teachers who could be teaching the generation that will determine whether we connect and survive as humans, and that’s only documented ones there have been millions more of undocumented abortions across the world
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Abortion has been an issue since 1820. In the beginning the problem was more about protecting doctors who have licenses. “Regular doctors thus had an incentive to ban abortion as part of an effort to drive irregular doctors many of whom were women out of business” (Straggenborg, 1991). The AMA (American Medical Association), which was the group that the regular doctors made, started a campaign that made the people believe that the white population was getting smaller and the population of the immigrants
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