SOCIAL STUDIES PROJECT

Meghna Arora

St Peter's School
GRADE 10

2022-2023

SELF INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgement 4

About Gender Discrimination 5

Discrimination against girl child 6-7

About Transgender 8 - 10

Responsibilities of a Citizen 11

Conclusion 12 - 13

References 14

Thank you 15
 Acknowledgement
I would like to express my special thanks of
gratitude to my teacher Mrs. Archana Sethi
as well as our principal Sr. Nirmal Mary
who gave me the guidance and helped me
to know about the topic. I had made this
project from my heart and shown utmost
sincerity to complete it. I am very thankful
to all those people who helped me to make
such a project. I also thank my parents who
have provided me all the resources required
to make this project .
Meghna Arora
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Gender discrimination is a common civil rights
violation that involves sexual harassment,
pregnancy discrimination, and unequal pay
for women who work in the same roles as
men. The term "gender" refers to the
characteristics associated with being either
male or female. It is often used
interchangeably with the word "sex," but both
words have different meanings.
"Sex" refers to a person's anatomical identity
as male or female. In the United States, it is
unlawful for companies to treat employees
unfairly or subject them to blatant
discrimination based on their gender. The
term "gender identity" refers to a person's
self-identification as male or female, rather
than their anatomical sex at birth. For most
people, gender identity and anatomical sex
align, but for some, they do not.
 Discrimination Against the
Girl Child
While children around the world continue to face various forms
of adversity in the 21 st century, girl children in particular are
subjected to multiple forms of oppression, exploitation, and
discrimination due to their gender. United Nations statistics,
national reports and studies initiated by non-governmental
organizations repeatedly show that girls, as a group, have lower
literacy rates, receive less health care, and are more often
impoverished than boys. It is also important to note these
conditions, more often than not, do not improve as girls grow to
become women.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a

child as a person under the age of 18 unless national laws
recognize the age of majority earlier. The age of 18 is now
accepted as the world standard, since every country has
ratified the CRC except Somalia and the United States .
Although YAP International specifically advocates for ending
discrimination against girls, we realize efforts to curtail
gender discrimination must include strategies that continue
to support women when they reach and pass age 18.
Gender empowerment
dosn't mean
discrimination, it only
means equality
NEVER MISTAKE
A WOMAN'S SILENCE
FOR HER IGNORANCE,
FOR HER ACCEPTANCE
AND HER KINDNESS
FOR HER WEAKNESS

No country can every truyly

flourish if it stifles the
potential of its women and
despives itself of the
contribution of half its citizen.
A GIRL SHOULD NOT
EXPECT PRIVILEGES
BECAUSE OF HER SEX,
BUT NEITHER SHOULD
BE ADJUST TO
PREJUDICE AND
DIRCRIMINATION
 COMMON PEOPLE OF SOCIETY LIKE US

DEFINATION
Transgender is involving partial or full reversal of
gender. In a simpler understanding the female body
Transgender people trapped in a male body and male body trapped in a
female body. They are not comfortable with the
express their gender existing physical body. They strongly believe that
identities in many they are trapped in a different body. It’s a strong
feeling that they should be the other gender.
different ways. Some
people use their dress, TERMS REFERRING TO
behavior, and TRANSGENDER IN THE SOCIETY:
mannerisms to live as the Chakka: a term used for hijras; She-male: a
gender that feels right transsexual person; Sissy- a man who other men or
boys laugh at for being interested in things girls like;
for them. Some people Kothi: again referring to transgender; No.9:
take hormones and may referring to transgender

have surgery to change

UNDERSTANDING THE
their body so it matches
TRANSGENDER PERSON:
their gender identity.
We have been taught that there are only two genders
Some transgender in the world and anything beyond is considered as
people reject the abnormal. We have stories of swamijis treating them
saying they are possessed with evil spirits and so on.
traditional One swamyji was saying that this could be cured. I had
understanding of gender a chance of interacting with few college girls few days
ago. One of them was strongly opposing that this is
as divided between just against our religion because god has created humans
as male and female. There are references of
“male” and “female,” so
transgender in different religious texts.
they identify just as
TERMINOLOGY
transgender, or
Before the mid-20th century various terms were used within and
genderqueer, beyond Western medical and psychological sciences to identify
persons and identities labeled transsexual, and later transgender from
genderfluid, or mid-century onward. ported from the German and ultimately modelled
after German Transsexualismus (coined in 1923)
something else.
 The transgender communities are discriminated at all levels. They perform at
birth and naming ceremonies. And we also need to recognise that they are
considered to be equal to that of god in certain North Indian communities. Since
they are not qualified to be employed most often end up in taking up begging in
the streets and in the inter sections in the streets. While begging in the train they
face sexual abuse and verbal abuse. There were cases of them being gang-raped
and pushed from the trains.

Apart from begging, the entire community is forced into sex work. The one reason
for being forced into sex work is because unavailability of livelihood resources.
The job sector is not ready to employ them even if they are qualified, because of
the stigma attached with them. As a result of this they are pushed to lead their
life in poverty or end up taking refuge in beggary and sex work.

The other major area of concern is the constant denial of housing in housing
societies and other areas leading them to being housed in slums. There are lots
of implications to this. One of them is that being looked as criminals because of
the stigma attached to the slums being a place of criminals. The police treat
them as criminals and also at times arrest them for being involved in sex work.
The violence in police stations never gets reported.

Their political participation is nil. We can’t really expect them to have an active
political participation when 33% of reservation for the women is distant dream.
Now parties like Praja Rajya Vedike is giving political space for the transgenders
to participate.
IT IS NOT THE GENDER THAT
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THEY INDENTIFY
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ASSOCIALTE THEMSELVES
WITH THE OTHER BENDER.

Humiliation & Mockeery

become part of their life
of Civil society
For No Discrimination
Stop discriminating people just
because they are transgender or girls.

Respect their identity.

Let us not subject them to dehumanizing

treatment.
Let the families accept their individuality.

Everyone has the right to life and freedom of

expression.
Everyone has the right to participate in the
political engagement. Let us encourage
transgender and female in participating in
the political discourse.

Let us be more inclusive and let not exclude them. Everyone has
the right to education. let us work towards getting the
transgender and women too under the right to education Act
 Gender discrimination in the workplace has
negatively impacted on the performance of
the companies and institutions both directly
and indirectly. This vice is also against the
human rights as human conscience is applied
more at work and not just the instinct.

While addressing this gender discrimination

one should have in mind that there is no
better sex hence the psychological view is
dealt with since the inside leads to the
outward which are the actions that either
promotes or reduce gender discrimination at
the work place. Companies and other
institutions should work towards eliminating
the vice since it largely works negatively to
the institutional wellbeing hence reducing
their profit margin.
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