WE! THE WOMAN

WE! THE WOMAN

Hii friends…here I am with one more of my blog….this partly is written by me and part is copy paste of idea and comments I liked. On the Eve of Women’s Day would like to say something….some thoughts are mine and some are others.



Today is 7th march…n tomorrow is 8th March….WOMEN’S DAY…n I was sitting n pondering what does it mean to me and to many more like me….why was this started…why its there in Country like ours…where Women r most suppressed. I see programs organized on State of women health, some one offering free medical check ups, Talk shows being organized, Healthy Recipe’s being discussed….and much more. In short trying to make few women make feel special on this Women’s Day…..



As women’s day draw near, women all over the country hit headlines - for countless contributions to the country's development and well-being; for achievements in business and sport; and for the quiet, behind-the-scenes role they play every day, as workers, wives and mothers.



I am the only women working in this organization…but still i wonder if any of my male colleague will even care to come n just wish me Happy Women’s Day!!!! But its okk..its not a Valentine’s Day…...where everyone atleast comes up n wish u…like Happy Holi or Happy Diwali…..but Happy Women day…I don’t think It will be wished…J No this is not a complain ….its hardly going to effect me or my work here….I am just talking about the attitude. And few of my men friends would question Why is there no Men's Day? Because every day except Women's Day is Men's Day….J

But I don’t want to talk about just myself on this women’s day…as I am not the ONLY one here…I want to talk about Indian Women, the common Indian Women, who is unnoticed and uncared and always taken for granted. There is this quote by late prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru:- You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women…..

Her name is Sunita, Sakina or Sandra. She is 20 going on 50. She lives in a city, a town, a village. She is cook, nurse, bookkeeper, seamstress, sweeper, general cleaner-up, washerwoman, entertainer, amateur child psychologist, imparter of religious and ethical instruction, teacher, sex educationist, counsellor, and, often, wage earner to boot, all rolled into one. She is your average, anonymous Indian woman homemaker. ( Sunday Times )

The persistence of hunger and abject poverty in India and other parts of the world is due in large measure to the subjugation, marginalization and disempowerment of women. Women suffer from hunger and poverty in greater numbers and to a great degree then men. At the same time, it is women who bear the primary responsibility for actions needed to end hunger: education, nutrition, health and family income.

Looking through the lens of hunger and poverty, there are seven major areas of discrimination against women in India:

* Malnutrition: India has exceptionally high rates of child malnutrition, because tradition in India requires that women eat last and least throughout their lives, even when pregnant and lactating. Malnourished women give birth to malnourished children, perpetuating the cycle.
* Poor Health: Females receive less health care than males. Many women die in childbirth of easily prevented complications. Working conditions and environmental pollution further impairs women's health.
* Lack of education: Families are far less likely to educate girls than boys, and far more likely to pull them out of school, either to help out at home or from fear of violence.
* Overwork: Women work longer hours and their work is more arduous than men's, yet their work is unrecognized. Men report that "women, like children, eat and do nothing." Technological progress in agriculture has had a negative impact on women.
* Unskilled: In women's primary employment sector - agriculture - extension services overlook women.
* Mistreatment: In recent years, there has been an alarming rise in atrocities against women in India, in terms of rapes, assaults and dowry-related murders. Fear of violence suppresses the aspirations of all women. Female infanticide and sex-selective abortions are additional forms of violence that reflect the devaluing of females in Indian society.
* Powerlessness: While women are guaranteed equality under the constitution, legal protection has little effect in the face of prevailing patriarchal traditions. Women lack power to decide who they will marry, and are often married off as children. Legal loopholes are used to deny women inheritance rights.

India has a long history of activism for women's welfare and rights, which has increasingly focused on women's economic rights. A range of government programs have been launched to increase economic opportunity for women, although there appear to be no existing programs to address the cultural and traditional discrimination against women that leads to her abject conditions.

Her name is Sunita, Sakina, Sandra. And the future belongs to her. It had better. Because without her we don’t have much of a future.