Women’s right seems to be a complex and crucial topic but it’s an integral part of the society. She is more alluring in every walk of man’s life and the obsession with her physical form is a never ending saga. Nobody in the earth can define her rights neither she can. But she knows that she has to be brave from the mother’s womb till the grave. In argumentative India Amartya sen had written, the biggest crime begins against women at the place where they are meant to be safest, in the mother’s wombs. It’s the society that is to blame for this, real perpetrators of the crime are amongst us and they go scot free every time. United nations reveals that about 7,50,000 female foetuses are aborted every year in India and eventually marked with steep fall of sex ratio.
The problems faced by Muslim women are confined to issues like veil, polygamy, divorce etc and more sickening is that society stopped looking them beyond it. Covering herself with veil and headscarf is an individual choice about attire and the intervention in her personal space spurs violence and tension in society.
Falling prey for each and every revolting issue is her sin and curse. Women can have missed the joy of education in her childhood or failed to hear stories as Alice in wonderland in the tender age nor might have failed to dream about her prince charming in her teenage but she would not have missed to escape from any of these – verbal harassment, staring, touching, sexual harassment or assault nor hearing lewd comments. They live in vulnerable society where practice of dowry, domestic violence can be stalled with help of an act and she is respectable only when laid in paper not in the heart or soul.
The women reservation bill is another never ending saga. The bill fight for representation of women in governance and it’s a true trump card to activate women power and also in protecting her rights. Last year, Forbes listed Sonia Gandhi as most powerful women in the world but why the woman finds it difficult to make the bill as law. Is her power is negligible on comparing with Lalu and Mulayam or with other conservative men folks power. Are the people out of governance is more powerful in our democratic country? This bill can help in betterment of women life and certainly in creating a safe, secure and an adorable society for her.
The fighting or demanding for rights started age old since our great grandmother days. Still the crusade is on and likely to get more intense in the future. Still news like first army woman personnel, ceo, politicians make waves in the society. For very long time, her potential remained untapped and considered as burden in the society. The Society least worried about her poverty, illiteracy or her exploitation and spent most of the time in creating hurdles one after the other.
The lack of proper toilet facilities, sanitation problems, forcible marriage, abduction, rape, honour killing by family members, dispute in property sharing and there is so on that society needs to address and resolve it. The right which is obvious to her is to appeal, to make everyone hear her voice and notice her in more dignified way.
Women are being liberated slowly from the clutches of evils and demons but still her feathers are clamped. This is the sad and miserable part of her life.
