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