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Fair Sex in an Unfair World- International Women’s Day - March 8
March 04, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Health In Focus
'Investment in Women and Girls' 2008 Theme
Spring is a time to revel in the enthralling beauty of flowers in full bloom. The joy of the season is heightened by the dawn of the significant day, International Women’s Day, every year.
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness'
- John Keats
It is a yearly reminder of the unspoken yet resolute power of women to rise above the odds in a rather skewed patriarchal world. This day is ample evidence of the crusade that began in the 1900s for gender equality, and restoration of basic rights to women. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India had said, ‘You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its Women’. The International Women’s Day 2008 reflects this ideology in its theme for the year - 'Investment in Women and Girls' as the only way to improve the world.
To the whole female fraternity that dons the many hats of a mother, sister, friend, partner, companion, wife, colleague with surprising élan, the world doffs its collective hat in adulation!
Gender Equality – A Mere Rhetoric?
Looking at a Sunita Williams breaking the earthly barriers to soar into erstwhile male bastion or an Indra Nooyi transcending the proverbial glass ceiling to become the Chief Executive of PepsiCo, or the indomitable spirit of firebrand cop Kiran Bedi and the achievement of the current and first woman President of India, Smt Pratibha Patil and many more, one may be lulled to think that gender equality has arrived. Though it does signal the arrival of the emancipated woman, these are only stray examples of women who have worked doubly harder to prove themselves in a male dominated world.
'Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good'
~Charlotte Whitton
Women are not treated at par, as substantiated by their representation in business and politics. The basic right of education and health are still denied to many in the developing or the underdeveloped countries of the world.
Gender -based discrimination is rampant even in the ‘first world’ which goes to prove that a woman’s education, financial status or even her geographical location does not completely shield her from abuse. This is so because in many a case a woman’s ill-treatment begins at the hands of people who are ‘close’ to her.
Spring is a time to revel in the enthralling beauty of flowers in full bloom. The joy of the season is heightened by the dawn of the significant day, International Women’s Day, every year.
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness'
- John Keats
It is a yearly reminder of the unspoken yet resolute power of women to rise above the odds in a rather skewed patriarchal world. This day is ample evidence of the crusade that began in the 1900s for gender equality, and restoration of basic rights to women. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India had said, ‘You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its Women’. The International Women’s Day 2008 reflects this ideology in its theme for the year - 'Investment in Women and Girls' as the only way to improve the world.
To the whole female fraternity that dons the many hats of a mother, sister, friend, partner, companion, wife, colleague with surprising élan, the world doffs its collective hat in adulation!
Gender Equality – A Mere Rhetoric?
Looking at a Sunita Williams breaking the earthly barriers to soar into erstwhile male bastion or an Indra Nooyi transcending the proverbial glass ceiling to become the Chief Executive of PepsiCo, or the indomitable spirit of firebrand cop Kiran Bedi and the achievement of the current and first woman President of India, Smt Pratibha Patil and many more, one may be lulled to think that gender equality has arrived. Though it does signal the arrival of the emancipated woman, these are only stray examples of women who have worked doubly harder to prove themselves in a male dominated world.
'Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good'
~Charlotte Whitton
Women are not treated at par, as substantiated by their representation in business and politics. The basic right of education and health are still denied to many in the developing or the underdeveloped countries of the world.
Gender -based discrimination is rampant even in the ‘first world’ which goes to prove that a woman’s education, financial status or even her geographical location does not completely shield her from abuse. This is so because in many a case a woman’s ill-treatment begins at the hands of people who are ‘close’ to her.
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03/06/2008
Gender inequality has been a problem from time immemorial. Physically Weaker creatures always suffer at the hands of a stronger creature- rule of mother nature. Today's women are however better in comparision to 50 years ago - at least in developed countries. The abuse is less. In fact many men are now being abused by women. Rich women also use young men as sex slaves and such exploits are often reported in press. Looking at some of the x-rated stuff u see all this super women devouring 4 to 5 men at the same time!! Not sure how they agree to such acts. Give it another decade this inequality will disappear.
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03/04/2008
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The fact of the matter is, that should a woman do that in much of the world, she will place herself under a death sentence from her nearest and dearest, or the society she lives in... at worst, at best a beating, or disfigurement... the laws must be strengthened such that women can stand up without fear of these repercusions...