Inégalités hommes/femmes, inégalités en Inde ( en anglais)

Notion 1 : The idea of progress

I’m going to speak about the notion idea of progress. Progress includes several questions: social, technological, artistic or domestic. To illustrate this notion, we can see the progress in India. There are a little over a billion people. It is a country where there are different traditions. Over the last twenty years we witnessed several changes. We can wonder how India became a country on the march. For that, we will see at first the traditional India and in the second part we will see the progress of India, a modern country.

A) There are inequalities between men and women.

We see traditions as in a document audio intituled « Indie’s girls go missing ». We learn that male dominated society and there are twice as many men than women. When the women are pregnant, she aborts if it’s a girl even if it’s forbidden by the law, baby girls are killed because they are a burden. We see a again difference between women and men: the girls are regarded as second-class citizens in India. In India, the family has to pay a dowry for the weddings. Moreover, always in the document audio, villagers admit that the indian society keeps the dowry tradition because it explains why boys are financially more attractive than girls. The dowry serves to pay the education of their son. If after the marriage, the woman didn’t keep the promise, she is killed or she is subject to torture. The dowry tradition also explains why many parents do not want to have daughters.

B) There are inequalities between indians citizens.

One of the most important problem in India is the cast system. There are 3000 years old, a Hindu priest has created a system called caste. This system divides society into four hereditary groups. The Brahmin caste is the highest caste and Dalit is the smallest. When we are born into a caste remains there all his life. There is a lot of discrimination against Dalits, they are obliged to have their own schools, eating places …

We can see in the text « Changing India » that India has many evolutes. Indeed, the narrator came from India but he has never been to India up to now. He decided to go in India by himself to make up his own mind about the country. Before he had prejudices about it but India has changed. The farms have given way to factories, the couples can divorce, untouchables children can go to school the food habits had changed,… The main change is people's mentalities. Now they can decide for themselves. We can see too according to the journalist, indians are in a new state of mind and they are confident and hopeful.There are news type of families. In the text « Blending families », we can see that changing from traditional family model to a breaking family model to new family types: it’s called blended family.Over the last century, male-dominated societies have been challenged and women have become emancipated, financially and sexually. As a consequence, values have been redefined and new family structures have emerged; single parenthood, recognition of same-sex parents, remarriage and blended families.

To conclude, India is now a « country on the march », now becoming « booming » thanks to it. It’s no longer a subcontinent. Many people are now billionaires

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