The analyses of human poverty and caste and gender discrimination are based on official data sets as well as a number of primary studies in the labor market and on reproductive health.ī. To gain insights into the economic and social status of Dalit women, our paper will delve more closely into their lives and encapsulate the economic and social situations of Dalit women in India. Thus, the problems of Dalit women are distinct and unique in many ways, and they suffer from the ‘triple burden’ of gender bias, caste discrimination, and economic deprivation. In all the indicators of human development, for example, literacy and longevity, Dalit women score worse than Dalit men and non-Dalit women. The additional discrimination faced by Dalit women on account of their gender and caste is clearly reflected in the differential achievements in human development indicators for this group. Dalit women also become victims of abhorrent social and religious practices such as devadasi/jogini (temple prostitution), resulting in sexual exploitation in the name of religion. They become vulnerable to sexual violence and exploitation due to their gender and caste. Dalit women’s problems encompass not only gender and economic deprivation but also discrimination associated with religion, caste, and untouchability, which in turn results in the denial of their social, economic, cultural, and political rights. Dalit women constituted about 16.60 percent of India’s female population in 2011. Women from this community suffer from not only discrimination based on their gender but also caste identity and consequent economic deprivation. Centre of Policy Research in Higher Education National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New DelhiĪdvanced Centre for Women Studies, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbaiĭalit women, gender, discrimination, exclusion, scheduled castes, India AbstractĪs the lowest in the caste hierarchy, Dalits in Indian society have historically suffered caste-based social exclusion from economic, civil, cultural, and political rights.
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