Problem of Gender Discrimination against Women in India in the Patriarchal Family System

Abstract

Women belong to the vulnerable group. Women have always been exploited in all the human societies. The root of the exploitation of women can be traced to the pattern of the gender system in patriarchal family system which exists in almost all the societies of the globe. In the regime of the international law and in the municipal laws of the progressive democracies like India adequate protection exists for the protection of the rights of women and for the elimination of gender discrimination. But still violation of the rights of women and gender discrimination against them is going on. Therefore, it is necessary to find out the root cause of the infliction of atrocities against women and solution of this problem.