Gender discrimination against Newari women : A study of Gabahal 16 Lalitpur

Abstract

This thesis has been carried out for the partial fulfillment of Master's degree in Sociology. The research is based on the topic "Gender discrimination against Newari women: A study of Gabahal-16".

This study examines the status of gender discrimination in Newari community. The General objective of the study is to find out socio-cultural and religion discrimination among Newari women and to examine cause and effect on gender base discrimination among Newari women. The data has collected from 30 women. I have selected age 20 to 70 years to know more about gender discrimination from their point of view. For this study Gabahal-16 is site selection for data collection. The data was collected by in-depth interview. This study had adopted exploratory in its nature and followed qualitative research method.

Gender discrimination means when people are treated differently according to their gender rather than the basis of their individual skill and capabilities. Most of the time female are discriminated because of gender. Sustainable development is possible when gender discrimination ends. Female go through various kind of gender discrimination. The discrimination regarding religious, cultural and traditional practices is also major discrimination that women deal with. There are different discriminatory practices within different castes. In the same way in Newari community also women are dealing with discriminatory religious, cultural and traditional practices.

On the account of lack of education, societal values, norms, patriarchy social structure, cultural practices, discriminatory tradition, rooted belief system women are dealing with gender discrimination. Female have low decision-making power than males. They find obstacle in personal growth; they go through mental and physical harassment. They have lack of freedom, lack of dignity. They find problem in self- esteem because of gender discrimination. This study found that the entire participant has gone through the gender discrimination. Discrimination affects mental and physical health of everyone. Since the traditional practices are rooted in people's mind from so many years. We still need time to eliminate those discriminatory traditional practices