Author(s): Jala Srilakshmi

Abstract: The gender perspective examines the impact of gender on people's opportunities, social roles, and interactions. The successful implementation of policy goals, programs and projects of international and national organizations is directly influenced by gender impacts and thereby back to the social development process. Gender is an integral part of all aspects of the economic, social, daily and private life of individuals and societies, and of the various roles that society attributes to men. and women. Representation of gender in literary works always show differences of the male and female characters in the novel, short stories, or films, by analysing the gender role or the representation of the literature work, it can be found that the authors of literature is following the patriarchal or feminism idea. The gender representation is shown in any genre of the literature. Virginia Woolf literature Woolf’s most famous statement about the relationship between gender and writing. Analysing gender discrimination in Anita Desai’s novel, Fasting, Feasting. Gender Bias by Sudha Murthy. The advancement of technology is one of the important factors contributing to closing the gender gap in the workplace. This approach looked for strategies and measures to compensate women for their social disadvantages. Since we all know that gender equality means equal rights and equal access to resources and opportunities for women and men, digitization has helped people improve their skills in their respective fields. Today, they can connect with anyone in the world through digital platforms and participate in online knowledge-sharing sessions.

Keywords: Gender discrimination, literature, feminism, societies, gender bias

Article Info: Received: 02 May 2023; Received in revised form: 03 Jun 2023; Accepted: 11 Jun 2023; Available online: 18 Jun 2023

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.83.50