The Women Of The Hindu Religion

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Term Paper Title	The Women Of The Hindu Religion
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The Women of the Hindu Religion

Universally, the women of the world have been trying to gain the same opportunities as the men.  The women in India who are committed to the Hindu religion have been struggling for years to break the traditions.  The women of the Hindu religion had many challenges in becoming a nineties women.   In the Hindu religion the traditional values are sacred and cannot be broken.  Even with these restrictions the Hindu women have passed many obstacles and became the women that they want to be today.  In this paper, I will go into detail about the women of  Hinduism.  I will focus on two main areas.  The first area is  marriage.  A big part of marriage deals with tradition, abuse, divorce, and the commitment that a women has to put into the marriage.  Education is another main obstacle that Hindu women pushed their way past; however, women that are well educated cause a lot of problems within the Hindu religion.
     The first area that I researched was Hindu marriage.  Marriage is extremely sacred in the Hindu religion.  The women get wed at a very young age.  The common age is 17-20, which for me is hard to comprehend.  However, in India this age is very common and still to this day women are becoming wed at a young age.  Many women are urged to wait until after they get out of school, but if they follow the Hindu tradition it says that home and marriage comes before all other obligations.  According to the Indian Caste Systems by O’Malley, "It is necessary for an orthodox Hindu to get his daughters married before the age of puberty: an unmarried daughter is a matter for reproach and causes a family to be looked down upon" (O’Malley 91).  One thing that caught my attention when I was reading was if an unwed girl dies, the family honor is saved my paying a man to go through a form of marriage with the corpse.
In the United States it is common for people to meet their future husband or wife through a mutual place of work or acquaintances; however, in India many of the women meet their husbands through adds in the Hindustan Times.  The add in this particular newspaper says, "A typical abbreviation used to be 22/160, the young woman’s age and height.  It is now 22/160/2,200, her monthly earnings" (Mitter, 20).  As you can see the women have progressed, but there is still a problem considering that the women must place an add to find a suitor.  Another obstacle that women had to overcome is the caste system.  In the Hindu soci...

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