Student: Professor: Course title: Date: Female notions of inheritance and Violence against women Abstract It would not be an exaggeration to claim that a girl born in a patriarchal society will experience immense discrimination tied in the cultural practices throughout her life. Indeed at every stage in her life, shameful cultural practices will always stare her in the face. These include dowry, Female Genital Mutilation and Honor killings among other senseless humiliating cultural practices. In most parts of the world, females do not inherit from their parents. Females have a notion that it is males who should inherit from their parents. Thus gender based inequality, which is the disparity in the way males and females are treated in the society whereby males are regarded with more dignity, continues to be experienced in the world over. However, in the recent times, women champions have fiercely refused to stay silent in the face of all this utter gender based inequality. Hence channels of addressing all these are being championed. Do