Discursive and Semiotic Approaches to Eradicate Gender Disparities with Special Reference to Sanskrit Textbooks

Abstract

This research aims to come out of the ignorance with which the urban world is full of phenomena like greed, lust, hatred, discrimination, separation and so. Identity of gender and existence has totally changed; woman has become the victim of male domination and patriarchy in personal and private realms. She just needs to follow the voice of the head of the society (patriarchy) manifested in the head of the house- father, and the head of her marriage –husband and when her kids grow up, she even needs to follow the words of her own children. She is the one who never gets equality in her whole life and spends her most of life losing her existence day by day which means there is no Ardhanarishwara in the real world. How these- separations, divorces, discrimination, greed, and hatred impinged in our Indic social pulpit, is the question? It is the ignorance of taking oneself as superior and other being as inferior, caused gender gap. Gender inequality (in rights, power, work, every way) is a universal phenomenon. It is kind of hidden discrimination played against them. All nations have tried to bridge the gap, but it is not completely clogged, despite many laws and socialization, through education, textbooks conferences, lectures, seminars, Books, and many things. So, to explore the ramifications of gender disparity, this research aims at bridging the invisible gap for women and third gender onto scholarly platforms, also in reexamining our epics and Sanskrit textbooks from this point of outlook.