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The desire for a male child and subsequent female infanticide has resulted in a significantly lowered sex ratio within India, creating an abundance of unmarried men in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Western UP. These men resort to purchasing inter-region women from impoverished communities mainly to continue their family lineage.
Brides for sale are outsourced from countries such as Burma, Laos, Pakistan, [12] Vietnam and North Korea. The bride-traders sell women as brides or as prostitutes depending on their physical appearance. A common trick employed by bride-brokers in acquiring brides for sale is the offer of a job such as in factories and instead kidnapping them.
This is a list of states and union territories of India ranked according to crime against women and rate of crime against women. The list is compiled from the 2016 and 2018 Crime in India Report published by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Government of India. [1] [2] [3]
Indian Rights for Indian Women (IRIW) was a grassroots activist collective in Canada, formed in 1967, that advocated against the gender discrimination in the Indian Act. [1] The group's primary goal was to eradicate Section 12, paragraph 1(b) of the Indian Act, which removed the Indian status of Indigenous women who married non-Indigenous men ...
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: By occupation: Indian This category exists only as a container for other categories of Indian women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
Lists of women politicians in India (4 P) S. ... Pages in category "Lists of Indian women" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Ramteke is from Rajnandgaon district in the state of Chhattisgarh. [1] She grew up in an illiterate household and after studying at school taught her parents to write. Ramteke became an Indian social entrepreneur when she set up a self-help group for women in her village, which founded the Maa Bamleshwari Bank in 2001, in order to support local projects through microfina