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2. Gender roles in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   While Sri Lanka relatively excels when it comes to gender equality indices, there are still many underlying issues pertaining to gender inequality in Sri Lanka. [ 3] Generally speaking, women in Sri Lanka are responsible for cooking, raising children, and taking care of housework. [ 2] In families relying on agriculture, women are in charge of ...

3. Women in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   Women in Sri Lanka make up to 52.09% of the population according to the 2012 census of Sri Lanka. [ 7] Sri Lankan women have contributed greatly to the country's development, in many areas. Historically, a masculine bias has dominated Sri Lankan culture, and they are allowed to vote in election since 1931. [ 8]

4. Gender inequality in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   Sri Lankan garment workers. Gender inequality in Sri Lanka is centered on the inequalities that arise between men and women in Sri Lanka.Specifically, these inequalities affect many aspects of women's lives, starting with sex-selective abortions and male preferences, then education and schooling in childhood, which influence job opportunities, property rights, access to health and political ...

5. Mail-order bride - Wikipedia

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   Mail-order bride. A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage. In the twentieth century, the trend primarily involved women living in developing countries seeking men from more developed nations. Men who list themselves in such publications are referred to as "mail-order husbands", although ...

6. Kumari Jayawardena - Wikipedia

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   Kumari Jayawardena ( Sinhala: කුමාරි ජයවර්ධන; born 1931) is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than offshoots of Western feminism. She has ...

7. Sexual minorities in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   She states that Sri Lankan society discriminated against "involves women who challenge the heteronormative framework that teaches us from a very early age that women should marry men, be faithful, be good housewives, never refuse sex with their husbands, bear children, care for the household, and express a particular model of femininity, with ...