Now a days ,Every Issue discussed revolves around urban middle class. The womans day celebration is not an exception. For ages, men are considered responsible for the plight of woman in this country. Its partially true as well. But now, here is a question to all the empowered , new age urban women in this country. How many of you realy bothered about the plight of woman who are far away from this urban metros ? Like another user mentioedn below, it starts from giving seats in bus/train to helping a poor girl in Neighbourhood. I have seen so many instances where jeans clad urban young woman in buses never bother to offer seats in Buses to old women. They will busy talking on their mobile phones. Every one knows how a maid is treated in many households. Why cant the so called empowerment reach to the poorer section of the society. Probably the empowrement stops at ofice level parties, restourants, gift shops. So much for womans day! The only one issue where I appreciate Mulayam singh and Laloo is for their stand on 33% reservation for women.They rightly argued that if it is implemenetd as it is all this 33% will grabbed by urban women.
RE:Woman
by Swathie on Mar 07, 2008 12:38 PM Permalink
I cannot agree more with what you said. While one cannot say rural situation is same as urban, the so called "women empowerment" by so called "educated women" has done nothing but create a saga of unprecendented state sponsered legal terrorism on innocent men and his mothers and sisters in the name of dowry laws. There is no punishment for filing these most draconian false cases. In this law the husband has to prove that he did not do any crime, did not take dowry, has to run in courts for a mimimum of 10 years along with his entire extended families including far away distant cousins who are relatives only for name sake. How does this abuse of innocent men and women help genuine victims. It does not. It only creates a bigger human rights abuse as it is happening in urban societies silently.
Even by making simple changes to law like incorporating punishment at the end of 10 years to the guilty party (who ever it is) abusers will stop and genuine victims can get faster justice. Also, laws must be crime based and not gender based. If a man has proof of domestic violence he must get some relief as well. Take the example of Kerala HC judgement on DV where he mnetioned that the case of DV filed by a wife of a disabled husband was a case of DV on the husband and there is no law to punish such women in spite of the evidence present in the courts. If there is no provision by law itself for such victims to get even basic justice how can we achieve equality?
