Divine Gender Inequality: A Study of Mythological Degradation of Hindu Women in India

Abstract

Ideal women of India are appreciated based on her kulinisam and characters like fidelity, chastity, servitude towards her husband and his family, obeisance, non fickle mind behavior, honesty, purity and many more. By fascinating and conditioning women based on these characteristics given by the society, Indian masculine egotism made women a dump driven cattle form womb to tamp. For that they used and made many ideals with help of folkways, Epics, Puranas and smrithis. Myths and mythology is having a big role in women degradation of India and This paper focuses its attention on the position of India women related mythology and the role of such myths in women’s position degradation.

Keywords: myths, mythology, women degradation, holy boos, evil social customs, women status, folkways, women history, ideal women