Volume : 11, Issue : 5, MAY 2025

STILL LIFE: A BLACK PRISONFOR WOMEN WHO HAVE NO RECOURSE TO BAIL

AVNEET KAUR, DR. RAMKUMAR

Abstract

This paper will scrabble about the inferior, unfortunate situations which the women face just because of their gender and the harsh side of the society which is even today considered as male dominated society. We will more study about the violence against women. This paper will provide us the deeper understandings of the hardest challenges faced by the women and the oppression they suffered. Caste and gender-based discrimination, patriarchal representation, lack of education and lack of employment opportunities and lack of delineation in decision making positions are even today’ s prevalent issues in backward areas. This paper will also highlight the way in which the women had to face the sexual violence and the lack of liability.

Keywords

DISCRIMINATION, RACIAL AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE, INTERSECTIONALITY, OPPRESSION, PATRIARCHAL DISCRIMINATION, GENDER-BASED DISCRIMINATION.

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