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RE:celebrating a women's day
by VOICE on Mar 04, 2008 06:54 AM

And how women are equal before the society? I am talking about India.
Because not all but MOST of the families mourn over the birth of a girl child...if not they are killed just after the birth or killed before the birth..if born..treated as burden because they don't earn mostly and parents have to give dowry ..men cry over 98% false dowry cases but do not bother about most of the real dowry deaths that goes unreported. In buses, trains and all the public places..women are sexually harassed and the blame is on their outfit and I would rather say blame on them being women. In villages 40 yr men marry 15 yr young girls ..I know a case where the man had 3 wives ..he used to cut their body with blade and have sex with prostitutes in front of them..I know another women whose husband chopped off her right and right leg ..I know many women whose husbands have married twice thrice without the thing called divorce..I know women who have been married to mentally disabled men and theycontinue living with them for their whole life..I know a man who left his wife because she had developed ulcer in mouth and he thought that it was mouth cancer. I know a woman who can't leave her husband who is sufuring from MDRTB...the most communicable kind of Tuberculosis. Now she is also the patient of MDRTB and can die anytime...this list is endless....I can go on writing. Finally..I am not in favour of celebrating women's day..because a women's day every year or a woman president can't do anything ab

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Gender equality: Why a Women's Day?