We teach young children about the gender discrimination in political science books. Indian Constitution is against gender discrimination. But in language , we find everywhere gender discrimination. For instance, Ram is honest. He is sincere also. If in place of Ram we put Sita ,then pronoun for Sita will be ' She' not ' He'. This difference of words HE and SHE is used to recognise the word Ram and Sita whether it is masculine or feminine. Now question arises Why language is interesting in categorizing the words are masculine or feminine ? This is not example classical gender discrimination.
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