PROPERTY PARITY AND GENDER INEQUALITY: UNRAVELLING THE COMPLEXITIES OF WOMEN'S PROPERTY RIGHTS IN INDIA AND USA

Abstract

Women, plays a significant role in building the home in one’s family. According to the United Nations Department of Public Information Report, population of women holds about one half of the entire globe but unfortunately she owes even less than one percent of the entire world’s property. Though, law makers have focused immensely in balancing the distribution of rights amongst all the genders of the society. But still the world is witnessing the unequal distribution of share in the family property amongst the women clan in the society. The forerunners of the nation, along with the general population witness such cases that are also the glared matters of the daily headlines. It is not only about the unequal share in property alone, women often gets discern in terms of political, social and even economic resources also. The researcher will trace the roots of acknowledgement of the property rights of women. The researcher in the present paper will bring into limelight the atrocities suffered by the women to get their legal rights over the family property in each country. This research paper will highlight the complexities associated with the interwoven concepts of property rights of women and gender justice. The reliance shall be placed on the factors influencing the capability of every women within the nation and across the borders to have the access, control and right to ownership of the property with respect to the various laws, social parameters and the contribution in the economic structure of both Indian as well as in USA. In addition to this, the empirical research in the present paper will be based on the collected database from each country focusing the disparities based on the unequal allocation of the property rights amongst men and women in each country, arising out the dependent variables such as economic inequalities, vulnerability and power imbalances.The researcher will also bring the comparative analysis of the property laws in the developed countries. Last but not the author will highlight the present status of women under law in terms of distribution of share in the property.