Tous les citoyens sont-ils sur un pied d'égalité dans l'Inde moderne?(document en anglais)

Are all citizens on an equal footing iN modern-day India?

In India there are differences between citizens:

-Differences between men and women:In India it's more men than women (940 females for 1000 males).The literary-rate is seventy-four percent.It is eighty three percent for men whereas it is sixty percent for women.However,some women POSSESS A great responsibility.Indira Ghandhi was the first female prime minister and Pratibla Patil in 2007 was the first female president of India.Thanks to THE micro credit SYSTEM at the beginning of 1970, a group of women led by Ela Bhatt brings TOGETHER its savings and gives rise to the Self-Employed Women's Association bank which includes WOMEN entrepreneurs.

-Differences between boy and girl:In THE PAST three generationS, more than 50 million women have been selectively eliminated from India's population through infanticide, dowrY-related murders and other gendercide practices. 600000 girls go missing every year.Families are desperate for sons as they are financially far more attractive.In the dowry tradition,the family of the wife HAS TO give a dowry to the future husbanD's family before marriage.This gift is supposedly given as compensation to the groom's parents fOr the cost of educating their son.The dowry tradition also explains why many parents do not want to have daughters.

In India there is a castE system which WAS developED more than 3000 years ago. THE Society was divided into four great hereditary social-classes.The Brahman caste is the highest.To oppose,the Dalits ( or Untouchables) are not even members of a caste,they are outcastes.Dalits are only allowed certain jobs such as cleaners...Discrimination againsEt Dalits still exists in rural areas.The caste system is forbidden IN THE countrY.40% of Dalits survive on less than 2 dollars a day.

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