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Write an essay on gender equity and equality in India in the context of balanced human development.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

Gender equality and gender equity are not the same demand: equality asks for identical treatment and identical shares, while equity asks for differential treatment proportionate to differential need and accumulated historical disadvantage, so that outcomes eventually converge. In a society where the starting points are unequal, formal equality reproduces inequality; equity is the route to…

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  • Conceptual Foundations: Capability, Equity and the Geography of Distribution
  • Feminist Geography: Space as Gendered, Not Neutral
  • Survival and Demography: The Arithmetic of Missing Women
  • Health and Nutrition: National Gains, Regional Chasms
  • Education: Access Achieved, Learning and Retention Unfinished
  • Work and Economic Agency: The Sharpest Deficit
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