Paper short abstract:

Nepal is a principally Hindu nation; and from a religious point of view, the women are considered to be sacred and a part of the God who created life. However, in practice the women are taken as the subordinate members of the society who are merely confined to their duties within the household.

Paper long abstract:

A real fact is that the life expectancy rate of a Nepali woman is much shorter than that of men!

Nepalese women are said to be doing all the house works, feeding kids, cleaning the house, taking care of the live stocks and domestic animals, washing dishes, and doing laundry.

Men don't do dishes and don't do laundry. She also takes care of husband's mother, brothers and sisters. In many cases her works are never rewarded, everyone complains the kids, husband, and the husband's mothers and sisters. While life's all decisions are made by Nepali man, she goes about her daily monotonous life, in her home and backyard, she works harder than men and she dies earlier.

Many of Nepalese girls are the victim of early marriage as early as 8 years old mostly in villages and in rural areas where parents give less education to daughters than sons and that they believe that girls are supposed to be doing household works. But alas! Whenever they get married dowry or called as daijo has to be paid with the daughter. In rural areas dowry thrives while in cities its presence can still be felt in a lesser magnitude. Lots of poor families without their own financial assets get pulled in the holes of loans just to give dowry. Many commit suicide from financial burdens. Dowry in poor countries like Nepal means of acquiring high status. Often families paying hefty dowry gets a boost in his or her status.