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title: "Reasons Why Dowries Are Horrible for Women"  
description: "India is the epicenter of dowry culture, even though the government banned the practice in 1961, and the effects of the system are everywhere corroding efforts"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-24  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1387/reasons-why-dowries-are-horrible-for-women  
category: "education"  
tags: ["Dowry", "Dowry System", "Indian Society", "Marriage", "marriage demands", "child marriage", "gender inequality"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Reasons Why Dowries Are Horrible for Women

![Reasons Why Dowries Are Horrible for Women](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3dc03faf-7bc3-4340-9dcb-846ef4858798/images/e651667f-2260-46eb-8485-b683d7216389.jpeg) ![Reasons Why Dowries Are Horrible for Women](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3dc03faf-7bc3-4340-9dcb-846ef4858798/images/b573d0fa-51e9-4c7c-99df-38447f6dc0a3.jpeg) Women Are Killed ![Reasons Why Dowries Are Horrible for Women](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3dc03faf-7bc3-4340-9dcb-846ef4858798/images/c842779c-f2a8-4ab3-8bb0-06d6fc2e4e26.jpeg) Women Are Abused ![Reasons Why Dowries Are Horrible for Women](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3dc03faf-7bc3-4340-9dcb-846ef4858798/images/1a5e68da-ba4a-4de7-8e15-015935b334ac.jpeg) Dowries Make Child Marriage More Likely ![Reasons Why Dowries Are Horrible for Women](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3dc03faf-7bc3-4340-9dcb-846ef4858798/images/31582362-af3d-49a0-8948-7084c9eb5702.jpeg) Dowries Keep Girls From Going to School ![Reasons Why Dowries Are Horrible for Women](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3dc03faf-7bc3-4340-9dcb-846ef4858798/images/beeb76cf-74a9-414f-adce-124a915bc6db.jpeg) Dowries Lead to Infanticide ![Reasons Why Dowries Are Horrible for Women](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3dc03faf-7bc3-4340-9dcb-846ef4858798/images/f990265b-47f1-4a0b-8c9d-c126d5019d44.jpeg) Dowries Maintain Gender Inequality ![Reasons Why Dowries Are Horrible for Women](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3dc03faf-7bc3-4340-9dcb-846ef4858798/images/ed4c0ff1-c6fd-4aa1-b45d-48127030df3e.jpeg) Dowries Keep Women From Economic Independence

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