“In Our Country women still lag much behind men despite some improvements since independence”. Support the statement by giving suitable reasons.

(i) The literacy rate (as per 2011 census) among women only 65.46 percent compared with 82.14 Percent among men. Similarly only a smaller proportion of girls go for higher studies.
(ii) The proportion of women among the highly paid and valued job is still very small. On an average, an Indian women works one hour more than an average man everyday.
(iii) As per the equal wages Act, equal wages should be paid to equal work. But in almost all areas of work, from sports and cinema to factories and fields, women are paid less than men, even when
both do exactly the same work.
(iv) Representation of women, in people representative bodies like Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, Legislative Assembles etc are still less than 10%
(v) Sex ratio is not in favour of women.
(vi) The status of women in society is lower than the men.
(vii) Their share in the state assembles is less than 12.5%.