Volume : 10, Issue : 2, FEB 2024

GENDER RELATIONSHIP IN URBAN SLUMS: A STUDY OF JAIPUR CITY

SHER SINGH KURI

Abstract

Gender inequality is one of the major constraints for social and economic development of any country. Still in this modem era gender discrimination between both sexes is well practiced everywhere in this country. Jaipur city is not an exception. The status of women in Rajasthan is far below the expectation level but it really seems to be worsening among the slum dwellers. According to Prof. Amartya Sen (2001) . “the afflicted world in which we live is characterized by deeply unequal sharing of the burden of adversities between women and men. Gender inequalities are not homogeneous phenomena, but a collection of disparate and interlinked problems.” Sen identifies seven types of inequality— natality, mortality, basic facilities, special opportunity, professional, ownership and household. (Raju, S, 2006). The status of gender relationship, living in the city slums has been analyzed through examining the degree of inequalities. Three major issues have been highlighted. Firstly it analyses the current status of women in the city. Secondly, it investigates the reasons of gender backwardness and bias against women in urban life. Thirdly it deals with some suggestions and remedies for wiping out discrimination against women. A country cannot be developed unless and until the existing discrimination between two gender groups is not completely wiped out. An attempt has been made through studying the status of women among the slum dwellers to focus on file establishment of human rights of women in both the economic and social sphere. Inequality between man and women exists among every sector in third world society. In both the economic and social sphere, women possess different status from the man. Almost in all social classes women suffer from various problems due to deep seated gender bias. Women’s status can be well judged by Gender Development Index (GDI) - as proposed by the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP). Each individual indicator has its own significance in measuring gender development or backwardness when a set of indicators is used to measure

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