women in india

Women in India:

•       Sex Ratio                  933:1000

•       Literacy Male           75.85

•       Literacy Female       54.16

•       1 to 3% of executive positions only occupied by women

•       9 % of women in execute bodies of political parties

•       3 % of women as Supreme Court Judges

•       7 % of women in civil services

•       6 % women in trade unions

•       Infant mortality is 67 for boys and 78 for girls

•       40 % women are assaulted by their intimate partners

•       65 % women reported some kind of abuse

•       Rural women are paid 60% of what men are paid

•       Urban women are paid 80% of what men are paid

•       A woman is molested in the country every 26 minutes

•       A rape occurs every 34 minutes

•       Every 42 minutes, an incident of sexual harassment takes place

•       Every 43 minutes, a woman is kidnapped

•       Every 93 minutes, a woman is killed

•       Every 102 minutes, a dowry death

•       Physical abuse of Indian women is high ranging from 22-60 percent

•       71.5 percent increase in cases of torture and dowry deaths from 1991-1995

•       45 percent of Indian women are slapped, kicked or beaten by their husbands

•       India also had highest rate of violence during pregnancy - 50 percent were kicked, beaten or hit when pregnant

•       74.8 percent of women who reported violence have attempted to commit suicide

•       Highest rate of sexual violence were among highly educated men

•       32% - with zero education, 42% - primary school education, 57%-high school and college education

•       35% sexual violence by low economic groups and 61 % among the highest income groups

•       Between 1980 and 1990 there was an increase of nearly 74% in crimes against women

•       Between 1993 and 2000 there was an increase of nearly 150% in crimes against women

•       Only 22% of women in rural India were recorded as workers

•       Only 32% of the female labour force of the total labour force is accounted for

•       In rural India, agriculture and allied industrial sectors employ as much as 89.5% of the total female labour

•       A rough estimate of sex-specific abortions and female infanticide together has been obtained by using indirect demographic techniques on census data, indicating that there have been about 1.2 million `missing girls' in India during the decade 1981-1991

Source:

1.     Excerpts from study on impact of globalization on women – study by mapovi

2.     Human development report of Tamilnadu –2003

3.     Indian census – 2001

4.     Crime Against women – DIG report 2004