Religion in Shaping Gender Inequality


Srija Chakraborty
Former Research Scholar at Women’s Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta
DOI : https://doi.org/10.58806/ijirme.2024.v3i3n20

Abstract

The uncial form of distribution in any explanatory part of differentiation that relies on gender inequality is also surfaced by embedded variation of religious perspectives. The rest of the cultural and historical relationship often subordinated the gender concept that created inequalities in the analysis of various forms with majority of inhabitant affiliated to religious identity. The rafter to study the respective religious and cultural historical relationship in, admitting how complex the issue is for any religion, embedding with gender inequality and the violence towards women or irrespective of any criminal mind, that creates a different effect on cultural Legacy. Thereafter, the geographic location also influences the form of social and economic direction towards the politics to bring-forth the outcome of any interpretative religious institution that shows the complex benefit that gender inequality have towards polity and how negative impact towards economy social and democratic progress throughout universe. Thereafter, this paper processes to understand the influence of any institutional rules and values and norms that reciprocate gender inequality and violence or violation of Human Rights on perspective of religious confluence, and influence towards the social organisation to diversify the selected assumption of gender inequality. This paper treats the significance of religious concept of recent changes into the status of women, through various data with analytical process of observing religious structure and how it determined the empirical method of research work to indicate both positive and negative aspect of the decreased or enhanced status of women that created by religious identity. Primarily with the ceremonies and positions during the disposition of patriarchal society that are triggered and created revolutions and rebels among the communities of various possibility of relationship with theism, or sex ratio, or differences into the female literacy rate, or thereafter women being enrolled into various higher education, or how the parliamentary form of decision-making process came into the action where women started including their perception on casting votes. Thus, the paper correlates the analysis and observes the conservative and the subjective assertion of any correlation with the empirical data and traditional influence over economic development. Those results showing the status of women into the various gender unequal situation with the sex ratio or rather correlated understanding of how the productive analysis towards gross domestic product, and national income if socio-economic factor is taken in account. This paper will further include certain key realm on how the religious impact often get stronger in connection with various economic-religious nexus of analytical process that perform the economic growth of any tension model. The neighbouring countries also get through spillovers, that creates the inequality more stronger regarding the boundaries that are being made with responsibilities of creating a modern society. The reference is then review of literature included the various traditional forms of understanding the theories of Inglehart and Norris, Klingorová, Verveer and others to conclude the mentioned assumption and understanding of the matters in concern through qualitative analysis.

Keywords:

Gender, Inequality, Religion, Violence and Human Rights.

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