Gender Equality In Hinduism

Modern Hindu reformers have been sensitive to the injustices resulting from karma/rebirth presuppositions and the resulting caste practices, as well as being drawn to modern Western ideas of rights and freedoms. He emphasized the need for social service to India’s poor. But retained traditional notions of karma, rebirth, and castes. The results of the study of Hinduism and human rights suggests that a middle way needs to be found between a recognition of plurality and distinctiveness on the one hand, and the equality of human beings on the other.

A get is a halachic bill of divorce. For a woman to be able to get a divorce, the husband must grant her a get. A get is an indispensable prerequisite for the validity of the divorce. A woman, whose husband has not granted her a get, is considered an agunah, or chained to her husband.
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The law places women in an inferior position to men and demands that women have less power than men, granting the man the final say in all matters as the head of their families. The second stage in the equality analysis is to determine whether the distinctions amount to what would be discrimination against women under international standards if there were no issues of exercise or manifestation of religious belief to be considered. Although international standards do not require identical treatment of men and women they do require the distinctions to be reasonable or just, based on objective criteria, and to be proportionate to the justification. The justification that the religious fundamentalists give, explicitly or implicitly, are generally that women are inferior, women’s sexuality needs external controls, that the women should be economically dependent upon a man, and that the man is the head of the