Shradha Sharma presents an ideological stance as to the cause of women empowerments and elucidates their status in the society and the evolution of the same in the 21st Century India.
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”
This saying by Margaret Thather, perfectly defines what it takes to be a women in the land of gods, where the peace is attained by the people all over the world, where you can’t start a work without the blessings of the god. Let’s look inside what it is really about being a woman in our country.
Round the corner, this time of the year is considered as the auspicious one and all the people are busy in taking the blessings of goddess durga and many other goddesses who are considered to help the person when one is going through difficult phrase of our life.
The paradoxical situation has such that she was sometimes concerned as Goddess and at other times merely as slave. Women in India are enjoying unique status of equality with the men, as per constitutional and legal provision. But if talk about the practicality of these legal provisions, thousands of women and female children are humiliated on daily basis by the family members themselves.
Women constitute almost 50% of the world’s population, but India has shown disproportionate sex ratio whereby female’s population has been comparatively lower than males. As far as their social status is concerned, they are not treated as equal to men in all the places. We tend to worship the goddess when we are in difficulty to seek the blessings and to grow and progress in our lives. But in reality we are ashamed if a girl child is born in the family and the same is treated as burden for her entire life till, the time she gets married, and after marriage, she becomes a child bearing object.
Our country has been filled up of society where hypocrisy is settled in our minds like if it is something without which we cannot survive, and we don’t even tend to do something to end this hypocrisy and be of little benefit to the females living in slums, forced to live a life more miserable than hell itself.
History has been a witness for all the times when women were made to dance and do the unethical jobs due to lower social status both in private and public places to please the so called male dominated society of the country, they have been treated as the object to play with, a thing of pleasure by the society.
Even after the numerous landmark judgments related to the sexual harassment of the women, the women in the country are still not considered to be safe. We have been hearing about the rape cases that even horrify us when we hear them or read about them in the newspapers or the various sources of the news.
The much talked about case, Vishaka vs. State of Rajasthan, has been the story behind the Supreme Court Guidelines on the protection of women on workplace. After the case, Supreme Court laid down the guidelines stating the attitude which will be treated as sexual offence :
(a) Physical contact and advances;
(b) a demand or request for sexual favors;
(c) sexually colored remarks;
(d) showing pornography;
(e) Any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature.
What we need today is not to empower the females of the richer families by providing them with security, what needs to done today is to save the women and the innocent females living in the lower society of the country by taking the initiative at a personal level.
Thousands of small drops make the mighty ocean, according to this we can say that if we want our nation to be one of the most developed nations, one need to develop at a personal level by lending a hand to the one who need it to grow and to save them from being discouraged to grow.
You may be shocked to hear this but many of them want to grow, they want to study and fulfill the dreams of their parents and make the parents proud, but they and not let done so due to the selfish society and due to the heavy influence of the society the girl is trapped in the house, beaten , humiliated and sometimes even raped by the own family members, which creates such a bad and terror impact on the mind of the victim that thinking of moving in a different city alone and working for their dreams is far away from their thinking when that can’t even speak up for the harassment done against them and make the accused feel guilty for what they have been doing to them in their tender age when they should’ve been playing but they were laying naked in the bed with some so called uncles and were not able to speak about the pain which they have been baring due to the pleasure of the male dominated society.
“Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.”
—Nancy Pelosi
