Political Science · Political Processes in India
Restrictions on women such as child marriage, enforced widowhood, dynastic tradition, and denial of inherited wealth are major sources of gender discrimination and are backed by
AEconomic reasons
BPolitical reasons
CFinancial reasons
DSocietal reasons ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Societal reasons — These restrictions are backed by societal reasons, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★These restrictions are backed by societal reasons, so that is the answer.
★They arise from deep-rooted social customs and traditions.
★Such norms define women's roles in a restrictive way.
★They are sustained by community expectations.
★They are not mainly economic or political in origin.
★Their force comes from social sanction.
★Thus the answer is societal reasons.
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