In earlier times women were facing problems like child marriage, sati pratha, parda pratha, restriction to widow remarriage, widows exploitation, devadasi system, etc. However, almost all the old traditional problems have been disappeared gradually from the society but given rise to other new issues. Women are continuously facing many problems even after having self confidence, individuality, self respect, personality, capacity, talent, and efficiency more than men. They are facing problems in their daily life even after they are given equal rights and opportunities like men by the Constitution of India. Some of the major problems modern women are still facing mentioned below:

Violence against women:

Women are getting affected by the various kind of violence almost every day which is disrupting the society. Women are being victims of violence at huge level day by day because of increasing crimes against women, according to the report of Crime Record Bureau of the Central Home Ministry. Woman is getting kidnapped at every 44 minutes, raped at every 47 minutes, 17 dowry deaths every day, etc. They may face violence within the family like dowry related harassment, death, marital rape, wife-battering, sexual abuse, deprivation of healthy food, female genital mutilation, etc or outside the family like kidnapping, rape, murder, etc.

Gender discrimination:

Women are considered as weaker section of the society than men and given less importance. Girl children are becoming real victims of the discrimination. There are also discrimination of power and work between men and women because of the patriarchal system families in India. Gender discrimination affects women in the areas like nutrition, education, health, care, decline of female population, job, public life, etc.

Problems of female education:

Women education percentage is low in India especially in the rural areas because they are discouraged for higher education like professional and technical education.
Problems related to unemployment: Women are getting more problem in searching their suitable work. They become more prone to the exploitation and harassment in the work areas.
They are given more work and hard tasks by their boss intentionally. They have to prove their devotion, seriousness and sincerity towards work time to time.
Women who are uneducated, are more prone to divorce and desertion by their husbands at some stage of life. They have to live whole life with fear of divorce. In some cases they have to finish their life because of unbearable conditions.

Dowry system:

It is another huge women problem in the society which is increasing day by day. Women are ill treated, man-handled, disrespected, tortured and suffer other cruelties like violence, murder and suicide, because of the lack of dowry at the time of marriage. It causes degradation of women status to a great extent.