Gender based stratification and Gender justice: An emerging challenge from Human rights perspective in an Atmanirbhar Bharat

Gender stratification refers to the inequalities between women and men regarding wealth, power and privilege. Gender stratification is a relatively new concept borne of the feminist perspective in social sciences, especially in sociology. Bharat had been witnessing gender stratification in its history towards mankind..

Bharat has been a patriarchal society and gender justice is a challenge in a Nav and an Atmanirbhar Bharat. From feminist perspective in social sciences women has been facing gender discrimination in education, jobs, power and privileges.

It is an emerging challenges from human rights perspective. Across the globe if we take the continent of Asia and Africa largely and some parts of Western Europe gender stratification is a challenge from feminist point of view specially regarding girl’s education. In the middle- east women are discriminate to a large extent in all spheres of life. This amounts to human rights violations because Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948 declares that there should not be any discrimination in respect of race, sex, colour and religion. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 1979, is an international legal instrument that requires countries to eliminate discrimination against women and girls in all areas and promotes women’s and girls’ equal rights.

The objectives of the paper will be to emphasize on the International Instruments that is UDHR 1948 and CEDAW 1979. It will look into the legal aspects of human rights and also the Constitutional rights of India where women can be given gender justice inspite of the stratification.

The methodology adopted will be doctrinal.