Women's rights in Jammu and Kashmir

Women's rights in Jammu and Kashmir is a major issue. Belonging to a patriarchal society, they have had to fight inequality and routine discrimination. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Women's rights in Kashmir Valley has major issues[8] as there is harassment of young muslim women participating in sports activities,[9] demands of dowry after marriage,[10] domestic violence incidents,[11] acid attacks on women ,[12] and men being generally taken in a higher regard than women. Many small organisations have been formed to struggle for women's rights in Jammu and Kashmir.[13]

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  7. ^ Rawwida Baksh; Wendy Harcourt (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements. Oxford University Press. pp. 683–. ISBN 978-0-19-994349-4.
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  9. ^ "Kashmir's suffocating patriarchy!". Daily Excelsior. 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  10. ^ Guest (2020-09-25). "Victims of Dowry in Srinagar: Five Case Studies". Kashmir Reader. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  11. ^ "Patriarchal Society: Celebrate individual excellence of women". Rising Kashmir. 2020-09-07. Retrieved 2020-09-26. [dead link]
  12. ^ Jamwal, Anuradha Bhasin (2020-09-26). "Kashmiri Women as Stone Pelters: It Is Not Just Anti-Militarism, It". The Citizen. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  13. ^ [1] Archived 2017-09-18 at the Wayback Machine Dr. Ayesha Ray "Kashmiri Women and the Politics of Identity" (paper presented to SHUR Final Conference on Human Rights and Civil Society, Rome, June 2009) at 14.