Women Condition In Our Society:
Women’s liberty which was hot topic from decades, not only in India but all over the world has now taken a shape of women’s reservation bill in India. I am not concern right now with women’s reservation bill which pops its face in parliament sessions frequently but never reaches to discussion stage. The apathy and discrimination against women which is prevalent in society in India has to be tackled honestly and sincerely.
Public in general feel and see that woman has been given its due right, when they see ladies working shoulder to shoulder with gents in offices, and feel their presence here and there in public life especially in big cities. Women feel happy with general acceptance in present society about their liberty to come out from their home in which ever dress they like, they can move freely and can go where ever they like to go alone. But in reality women folk are suffering a lot in our present society in the absence of real analysis of their problems and having the knowledge of their psychology to formulate appropriate law by the government and by enlightening the moral and religious binding to the public.
The discrimination which women are facing in India is common for all woman, may be Brahmin, Dalit, Muslim, Christian all are treated same way by society. The apathy and indifference against women is very old in India. The operation and tragedy starts from the moment she is conceived. In majority of home a birth of baby girl is not welcome. Especially in Punjab baby girl is willfully aborted before they are born. The man-woman ratio is dropping drastically in this state. The mother agrees under duress. For if she gives birth to a girl her own life will become under threat, she will be treated as an outcaste in her husband’s home, and so she convince her self that it is best to get-rid of a baby that no one wants.
Feticide which costs money, so often, the girl child after being born is abandoned. And if she survives all this, then she lives a life where she lives to expect the least, to get the worst, and hope that somehow she will escape from the hell that they call home. Most of the time if she manages to escape, she falls in worst hand, putting her life virtually in hell.She is lucky if she gets the same level of education, as good a school as her brother. She is even more fortunate if she is not married off for dowry to the lowest bidder. She can count every lucky star if she is able to work and treated not as a money making machine but as person in her own right.
Working women condition is also not comfortable. She begins her day at the crack of down. She cooks for the entire family, sends her children to school, packs her husband’s lunch and goes to the bus stand to catch an overcrowded vehicle full of fearing, groping men. She works her day through, is shouted by her boss, denied a promotion and often subjected to sexual molestation. She returns tiered in the evening, to complete the chores and catch a few hours sleep before her day begins again.
In villages her story is grim. She is old by the time she is 35 as she has produced children year after year- some live some die- with no women doctors in the district hospital who can understand and take care of ailments. She lives without knowing what life is, she dies without having lived. Each woman has a story to tell, and each story is laced with suffering and pathos that makes her different from man. In every religion, in every caste, the woman remains oppressed, at the low receiving end of life.
As the situation is so grim how only the law, if at all formulated which has been seen in recent past taken by government can be effective to emancipate women condition in the society. It requires planning to educate the public with moral and religious values and the place which a woman has in the society. I have to repeat which I have wrote earlier that this education should start from basic unit of society which is "the family.”