Gender Equality means each and every person will be treated equally irrespective of their gender. It means you will be given same rights and opportunities whether you are a men or women. sounds fair. But In India society is patriarchal even today. And there is a vast section of females which are deprived from their basic rights and fulfill their life.
Equality means equal education
Education is a basic human right. Every individual should be able to be literate enough so that he or she can do basic reading and writing. Primary education is much more crucial than people think. Imagine what would be the life of people who are not able to read basic texts. Let me tell you this from a real life example. My friend is working in a rural bank and there come many people who don't know how to fill the form. Bank has allocated an employee just to help people by filling their forms. Not everyone is generous like bank. Now let me tell you that in India 30% of total female population is not able to complete their basic education. This is because either they got married at an early age or their parents forced them to leave school.
Equality means equal job opportunities
In most of the sectors women workforce are still less in number. Although Government took steps like fixing reservation or Quota for women. but that is not right practice according to me. You have to focus on making women skilled instead of giving them reservation. So that they themselves get the job and not in the form of beggary of reservation.
Equality means equal rights in the family
Head of the family is still the Man in almost all of the family. We are living in 21st century but still we are not ready for equal distribution of rights and responsibilities between man and woman. A family should run by the cooperation of both partners. Why its only the Man who takes all the important decisions of the family. Why its the man who control the finances, even if the wife is working & earning. If they are contributing equally to the family then decision should be taken based on mutual respect.
Equality means equal responsibility of children
I don't know but why raising children in India is considered feminine by default. Why can't they both help in raising children. I know from birth to initial years babies needs their mother more than their fathers. Its includes several biological reasons like breastfeeding and extra care but after that a kid should be handled by both parents.
What Government is doing in the name of Gender Equality
Government's solution for gender equality is a very wrong approach. I will tell you why. Government basically introducing reservation and laws which favors women. Like 50% reservation in some department. And There are many laws in India legal system which are favoring women. But all these reservation and laws are mostly used by the women from already privileged and progressive background. In fact in some of the cases these has been used by some toxic feminists as a weapon against men. On the other hand there are many under privileged women who are deprived from everything and they even don't have idea that Government has given them some rights.
Is Gender Equality by suppressing Men is OK?
No, its not and it never can be. If we suppress man in the name of women empowerment than the whole concept of equality has been wasted. Also the society can function in a much better way if both the gender live in harmony and help each other instead of fighting for dominance.
Final Thoughts
Gender equality is the need of hour for our country. Because we can not become a developed country by ignoring nearly half of our population. So we make sure that each individual of our country gets better opportunities and better standard of life. Government has to make sure that the women from backward areas should at least get basic education so that they themselves can understand for their rights and get employment.
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