@ Gender Discrimination

Hi ppl.

When we are talking of Gender discrimination here, we need to understand one fundamental point. In this male dominated society , everything is from the male point of view. So we could in fact call the topic female discrimination !

For a moment, lets think i m a very biased man . Orthodox of course. And born in India .
Well , these qualifications are enough for me to criticize on any woman at home or at work.
My opinions will always be accepted, though they may be useless in reality..while better ideas suggested by the "women of the house" are trash by default.

Lets also take for instance that i have children, and being in India, have quite a few of them. Probably a son and a daughter. Son is in the 4th class. Daughter.? She learns cooking and helps her mother. Why ? She'll need that in the future more than ABCs ...

Lets get back to the Indian households. The people, mostly rural , have even more stunning practices when it comes to gender. People think of girls as a burden , right from day one of the child's birth. While some go to extremes [female infanticide] , others make a quick buck selling their children for mere hundreds . Such is the condition of rural India.

Females are restricted to their homes, forbidden to make intelligent conversations, and never given a chance to develop.

Don't think Urban India is better though, coz even more ghastly things happen here... Here females are discriminated from the foetal stage itself ! If you happen to make it through, you'll be viewed as a burden who'll get married and take all the family wealth with her ..

Coming to education, you can observe there are lots of young girls who score top marks in examinations. A few years later , you see them in a supermarket , buying goods for their children , and saying they are housewives !!

Now , back to the modern Indian scenario ...

Social activists call for "Equality of rights for women !"
Women demand : "33 % reservation for women !"

Hey... which one's the better option ? Think about the two of them !

Lots of support groups and self help groups have sprung up to take the cause for women. Such groups face political pressure in carrying out activities. Why ? The biased people of our parents generation, are now our politicians.... What do you expect of them ?

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The media and entertainment industry ,which changes the perceptions of all the viewers, treats them as 'objects' of glamor instead of working to improve the status if women in the society . This creates the necessary impetus for the younger generations to form their won biases ans stereotypes... and the results are more crimes and abuse of women.
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Outside India. gender has nothing to do with anything at all.. People do all sorts of crazy things with their lives there, but then, they are not restricted by anybody ,especially by their family .

I dont say we change our thinking radically.. i say we think together to make our society a better place ! This is our generation. Age old ideas and useless gender rules must be obliterated . Our children must not even know such things existed ! It could be a good start , at least for our children !