Gender를 中心으로 본 印度社會福祉試論

An Essay in Indian Social Welfare focused on Gender Issues: Diversity and Contradiction

This essay starts with an analysis on gender issues on the assumption that the Indian social welfare could not be improved without solution of women's problems. The interest and analysis on the gender issues are related how the Indian welfare system should be studied. A search for social welfare through gender issues means that first, strong recognition of suppression of women's situation, second discussion on the human rights and civil rights, and then recovery of humanities and recognition of human life. So the purpose of this study is a sketch of a model of social welfare through gender perspectives. To reach this purpose, the character of Indian women's problems, such as neglience and social inequality of women, sati and dowery, are examined and then looked for correlation with general social welfare.