Do we
require gender equality? Is it a compulsion to follow this?
No not at all. According to me it’s just a practice to
showcase that our country is a developed one. Don’t you think so? If we think practically
it is the fact that most of the work which men do, women can’t do them and so
is the case with women. It’s basically the inbuilt character in most of the
women that they think that they cannot perform certain physical tasks which men
perform. For example, now I list out some of the factors which easily shows us
that gender equality doesn’t really exist or followed.
NOTE: The
factors drawn out here are in general keeping in mind the general public.
1. Social: Yes, the first
point that came into my mind is the social factor. Basically, for instance let’s
take an example of the seating system in public buses - the front 4 rows of the
bus are especially reserved for women. If women are capable enough to manage
then why this system is introduced? Even in reservations, 33% of seats are
reserved for women in each aspect. Why is the dowry system and grooms’ superiority
still prevailing?
2. Cultural: I do accept the fact that nowadays
there is no discrimination shown between men and women regarding cultural values
but how many of us accept that our parents are equally concerned with girls’
and boys’ security? Why there is a rule that girls should get married at the
age of 20-25 whereas boys from 25-30. Why the terms like ‘job security’,
‘casual leaves’, ‘day shifts’ are mentioned for only women.
3. General: Did you ever see a group of girls
sitting on the roadsides as comfortably as the boys do which we generally called
‘adda’?
4. Social networking: Strange? How is this acceptable?
Yes, actually the so called ‘privacy’ button is meant for girls. Do you hardly
find any guy using privacy option? There is no safety for women when they post
a photo on any social networking website as there are fair chances that their
photo might get morphed with this fast pacing technology.
5. Political: There is a very considerable
difference between men and women ratio in politics. There less number of women
entering into politics. This is because generally it is believed that
governance, managements, transactions etc are controlled by men. They are capable of handling pressure a little more than
women do in terms of dealing with huge number of people.
It’s not
that I am showing women down. But in a country like India, where the past was
in favour of men, the nation is still taking time to get out of that scenario
to get things right. But how far will this happen? In a country of 125 crores
of population, do you think we can change the mind set of each and every
individual to bring a change in the society regarding this issue? If that was
the case, India would have been called a developed country ages ago.
Therefore,
theoretically it sounds wonderful to actually encourage the nation to rise up
to a situation to eliminate gender bias. But practically, in a country like
India, where there is a lot of resistance to change, this might seem to be a little
too difficult task.
#Knowing #9D
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