Students' Column
Are We Ready For Gender Equality?

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Last week, it was international women’s day. Every women must have received messages and emails , but lets face it they are just words spoken without emotions. Everyone talks about gender equality, feminism, women empowerment but are we actually ready for women to be treated as equals? In this patriarchal society where a women working independently or divorced are victims of the dogma that they are rebel, it is their fault that they are divorced. We have the habit of blaming women for every little offence and judging them for everything they do, like oh! She got divorced, it must be her fault or oh! She wears jeans, she must have many boyfriends. Why? Why do we blame clothes or time for rape? If A girl is out at 8:30pm, why is this such a big deal or why is she stared upon everywhere she goes. She is not asking for it!
The statistics reveal that a women is raped every 20mins in India. Not only rape , women are victims of dowry, sexual harassment and eve teasing. People think its because of the clothes. I mean, c’mon lets face it! It’s because of the cheap mentality that women are weaker section or the ‘second’ sex. It is not the girl’s clothes that need to be changed but the mind-set. Girls are asked not to leave home after 6:00pm or not to study far from home. But why don’t we teach boys to respect every women or protect them or not to abuse them. Gender Equality seems a distant dream right now. There are various schemes, programs launched by government, NGOs But not unless we decide to take matter in our hands nothing would change. We need to understand the general psychology that drives criminals to lead to such brutality. The recent ban on the documentary “India’s daughter” shows the irony. It is banned because it can hurt sentiments but anything it can do is act a mirror for those who think the same way as the criminals. Don’t you think it is not the documentary that needs to be banned instead the people who think or act in such lousy opinion.
To survive in this male dominated or patriarchal society, it is not just the women who needs to come together and act as one, but also every member of the society. Gender equality cannot be achieved in a fortnight and also people are not very ignorant of this issue but still we are far from accomplishing every women’s dream of feeling of equality or parity in the society. There are few women like Indira Nooyi (CEO of Pepsico) , Mary kom(boxer), Arundhati Roy(writer) who have defied the social norms and left their marks in India’s history but my question is why so few? Why not every women do what they wish to. If they want to work, be a dancer or an entrepreneur or an engineer. Why not give them opportunities to excel and be independent in life. Women around the globe are not asking for a society where they are superior or above the men, Often people confuse feminism with women dominance and ascendancy but feminism is a credence that men and women should have equal opportunity and rights. This is not very hard to achieve yet cannot be achieved hastily. What we need is a transformation of thoughts, transformation of mindset and then gender equality will be inevitable.
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