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| Gender inequality has to end | | |
Despite women sharing equal responsibilities with men, gender inequality still prevails in our society. Women have emerged as leaders in different fields but still men don’t treat them equally.
Need of the hour is to challenge odds and allow women to move ahead in every sphere of life. There is perhaps more needed to be done to let her flourish and prosper.
Women and girls are the worst victims of the gender discrimination as it subjects them to inequalities and puts their lives and livelihoods at risk.
Across the globe, women depend more on, yet have less access to, natural resources, and often bear a disproportionate responsibility for securing food, water, and fuel.
As women bear the burden of climate impacts, they are also essential to leading and driving change in climate adaption, mitigation and solutions. Without the inclusion of half of the world’s population, it is unlikely that solutions for a sustainable planet and a gender equal world tomorrow will be realized.
There is also a pressing need to challenge the ills prevailing in the society which continue to threaten her because all sorts of tragedies befall daughters-in-law from kitchen fires, suicides and mysterious ailments. Marriage and money continue to be tied together. The fact that dowry has been illegal since 1961 means little. The vast majority of families, from the urban elite to other sections, still pay some form of dowry. The deaths remain an ominuous ignominy across India. Jammu and Kashmir is no exception. Various forms of crimes against women exist. Sometimes the murders are disguised as suicides or kitchen injuries from exploding stoves, even though husbands or in-laws drove the women to kill themselves.
According to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for IPC cases, a woman becomes a victim of dowry death roughly every one hour. Additionally, she becomes a victim of cruelty by her husband or in-laws every four minutes.
Women empowerment is mandatory to achieve gender equality worldwide. Men have to ensure that women achieve gender equality. They are the ones who have to change their mindset about women and acknowledge their contribution towards the family and society. The discrimination with the women folk needs to end and change has to commence from our homes. |
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