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Question
Write any two types of discrimination?
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Solution
- Gender discrimination:
- Gender discrimination refers to the health, education, economic and political inequalities between men and women in India.
- For example, a girl is not allowed to go to college after finishing her schooling.
- Most of the girls are not allowed to select a career of their choice, rather they are forced into marriage.
- In some families, girls are not allowed to wear modern dresses while boys in such families often wear modern dresses.
- Religious discrimination:
- Religious discrimination is unequal treatment of an individual or group based on their beliefs.
- Religious discrimination has been around for a long time.
- There have been problems between people of different religions for thousands of years.
- Some people are not allowed to enter public places; especially places of worship, because they belong to another religion.
- Some religious people often end up in conflict with each other because of their rituals and way of life.
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