4.2 Civil Law Provisions on Gender Justice

The Muluki Civil Code 2074's gender faces (the syllabus's five heads): Property: the partition's equality (the daughter's-and-son's equal shares — the 11th- amendment's-era gain carried forward: the birth-right's coparcenery); the women's exclusive property (the stridhan's world: the own-earnings-and-the-gifts — the full ownership); the marital-property faces; the widow's-and-the-divorcee's entitlements — the history: the 2020's Muluki Ain's inequalities (the 35-year-and-unmarried condition's era) to the equal-present (the Meera Dhungana line's judicial push — Unit 8); Employment: the civil law's contract faces (the equality in the hiring-and-conditions); the Labour Act 2074's link (the equal-remuneration's-and-maternity's faces — LAW 407's craft); the public-service's equality (the reservation's-and-quota's faces); Reputation: the defamation's-and-the-insult's civil protections (the gendered-harm faces: the slut-shaming-and-the-witch-label's civil redress possibility); the privacy's protection (the private-information's misuse); Reproductive health: the abortion's decriminalisation (the 2002 amendment's landmark — the 12-week face; the rape-and-incest-and-health exceptions); the reproductive-rights jurisprudence (the SC's line: the reproductive-health-as-the-fundamental-right — the free- services' directives); the safe-motherhood's faces; the sterilisation-consent's cases; Status: the marriage's equality (the consent's requirements; the same grounds for the husband's-and-wife's divorce — the Gyawali-era gain); the bigamy's equal treatment (the historical inequality corrected — Unit 8's case); the nationality's-and-the-domicile's faces; the children's status (the birth-registration-and-the-name faces). The reform's engine (the unit's craft): the legislative-judicial partnership — the court's directives (the 1990s-2000s line) + the statutory modernisation (the 11th-amendment 2002; the Gender-Equality Act…