Prakriti: Are We Making Progress In Gender Equality?

    • Prakriti Shah, class X, Podar Intl School, Powai CAIE
    • Publish Date: Nov 6 2019 2:13PM
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    • Updated Date: Nov 6 2019 2:17PM
Prakriti: Are We Making Progress In Gender Equality?

For decades now, women have struggled to get equal recognition and equal rights. The suffragettes campaigned to allow women to vote. Women started movements for equal pay, maternity leave, against sexual harassment and domestic violence. And to a large extent, in most developed countries, these efforts have seen results. Most countries now allow women to vote though some nations make it really tough for them – though it's not strictly illegal. The #MeToo movement has started conversations about sexual harassment in the workplace, and now it's very easy for the girl child to get access to education.

The pay gap is steadily reducing with parity almost in sight. Countries like Saudi Arabia, known for their extreme repression of women, have been relaxing their strict diktats regarding women owning a passport and travelling without a male guardian. However, they still need permission from a male guardian for most other things, including opening a bank account or buying property. India recently banned the system of triple talaq, where men can instantly divorce their wives by uttering the word ‘talaq’ thrice, in a huge win for women's rights.

However, largely progressive countries like the US have shocked the world with their oppressive anti-abortion laws, prosecuting women who dared to defy the age-old status quo by choosing against motherhood. Rape and harassment is still rampant, despite increasing social awareness. In spite of innumerable efforts, women are still treated as inferiors, resigned to always being a man's subordinate. Unless a collective mindset is altered and awareness is spread, nothing will change.  

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