Women and We men
Get a group of women and ask them to crib, they would love to do it. Especially if you ask them to talk against men! I was watching 'We, the people ' on NDTV last weekend and the topic was if women have gained the same status in society as men have. Are they viewed as equals in society and in all professions. Are reservations required for women and so on......
But the debate involved only women in the panel! Even the audience had only a small number of men. And every woman in the panel was of the opinion that women are still oppressed by men. Some were supporting the 33% reservation in parliament for women. And all were relentless in stating that the society still views women as a step lower than men.
Maybe this is true. When you look at cases of groping, molesting, rape and all such instances belonging to the same genre we still find that women turn out to be the victim in most cases. Maybe the situation is improving a lot in the middle and upper middle class but at the lower strata of society the inequalities are more prominent.
But does that mean that we need to provide reservations for women. That is not something I would patronize. The women in parliament is now about 8 percent and the suggestion is to increase it to 33 percent. I feel that is unnecessary. Women who have the willigness and commitment to do something will anyway reach their goals. And this should be on their merit.
It is the mindset of the people that needs to change. Just because a person is a women it shouldnt hinder her from reaching her goals. The society is so conditionalised that it inherently thinks that women are not capable of doing certain things. And thus they looked down upon. And every new generation derives these thought from the previous ones. Unless there is a change in the way women are looked at we will continue to have this debate. As mentioned by one of the panelists in the show,
"This can be best achieved by changing the text in our primary school text-books from
'Father works in the office. Mother cooks at home. '
to
'Both Father and Mother work at office and cook at home'
"
This might bring about a change in the prototypes that we have already internalised.
But the debate involved only women in the panel! Even the audience had only a small number of men. And every woman in the panel was of the opinion that women are still oppressed by men. Some were supporting the 33% reservation in parliament for women. And all were relentless in stating that the society still views women as a step lower than men.
Maybe this is true. When you look at cases of groping, molesting, rape and all such instances belonging to the same genre we still find that women turn out to be the victim in most cases. Maybe the situation is improving a lot in the middle and upper middle class but at the lower strata of society the inequalities are more prominent.
But does that mean that we need to provide reservations for women. That is not something I would patronize. The women in parliament is now about 8 percent and the suggestion is to increase it to 33 percent. I feel that is unnecessary. Women who have the willigness and commitment to do something will anyway reach their goals. And this should be on their merit.
It is the mindset of the people that needs to change. Just because a person is a women it shouldnt hinder her from reaching her goals. The society is so conditionalised that it inherently thinks that women are not capable of doing certain things. And thus they looked down upon. And every new generation derives these thought from the previous ones. Unless there is a change in the way women are looked at we will continue to have this debate. As mentioned by one of the panelists in the show,
"This can be best achieved by changing the text in our primary school text-books from
'Father works in the office. Mother cooks at home. '
to
'Both Father and Mother work at office and cook at home'
"
This might bring about a change in the prototypes that we have already internalised.
posted by Sriniketh S at
7:07 PM
3 Comments:
well protocols r meant to mislead....
but condition of women hasn't been all tat gr8 either,so i guess the women on the panel n audience in d show u mentioned have the right to ATLEAST crib ;-)
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Aditi Chauhan, at 8:02 AM
Well said, Aditi, of course I didnt expect you to go against your own clan! But believe me women crib a lot more than men - and that is not because of their social condition!
By
Sriniketh S, at 5:50 AM
well,i'm not going against my clan....But then its a known fact that women crib more just like men gossip more....
lol;-)
N all da panelists sitting were women so tat clarifies the intenions of the show producers....
Its all the race for money dude....Hardly do any of these news channels bring up good subjects and actually do something about it....Paisa Bolta Hai....
But yeah well written....
By
Aditi Chauhan, at 8:06 AM
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