Gender discrimination means discriminatory treatment against the female.It begins with the birth of the female child. The worst sufferers are the divorced women and the widows.
Parents think that the female child will go away into another family as wife in due course of time and will not contribute anything to the family welfare.The society considers the women to be weaker in strength and wisedom.So, they are faced with discriminatory in the spheres. of employment and career building.
The main reason of this probelm :
The main reason of this degrading situation is that the women are not wage-earners and they have to depend on the male members of the family for their livelihood.
The other reasons lie in the familial and social attidudes.