Status of Gender Equality in India: Joint Stakeholders Report for the 3rd Universal Periodic Review on Women and LGBTI Issues (2012-2016).

Abstract

Women experience disadvantage and oppression differentially, based on their status, context and location. Gender inequalities arising from patriarchal structures are exacerbated by poverty, status – as Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) (Constitutional categories created in recognition of the marginalisation of dalits and adivasi communities) or religious minority – or indeed on account of disability, single status/widowhood, livelihood, sexual orientation and gender identity. Likewise, the degree of stigma, criminalisation and exclusion of LGBTI persons varies according to other intersecting status identifiers.