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Sahar

Sahar — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

There is such a sharp contrast in lives of women living in different countries.

I agree, with everything what the writer of this article is saying but I also want to add few of my own rants.

I believe we should also remember and honor women impacted by conflict and war. The women and children are usually the ones to pick up the pieces after the violence (usually generated by the men) is finished. Women are usually the ones to rebuild the society that was almost destroyed by the war.

Ten worst countries for woman

Vinod

Vinod — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

there is not that much difference between ”then and now” but the need of the hour is to make it ”=” men as long as we are interested to run our society on two wheel chariot that could not tread if one of the wheel is damaged.

Ivka

Ivka — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a day of worldwide celebration for the achievements women have made, recognition of the difficulties and challenges women still face daily, and recommitment to fighting gender-based discrimination through the promotion of women’s substantive equality.

But there is still much to be done to further women’s equality.

Aboriginal women still don’t have equality in their communities in terms of property rights and representation in the governance of their communities, and are at a highly disproportionate risk of becoming victims of domestic and sexual assault.

Women are still being sold into slavery in the form of trafficked persons. 80% of all trafficked persons are women, who are forced into domestic and/or sexual exploitation.

Lesbian women are still suffering widespread discrimination, and face legal barriers to being able to care for their partners during end-of-life situations and inheriting property from their partners - even homes that they have been living in for decades.

There are different problems affecting women in other parts of the world. Women are raped en masse as part of genocidal wars in Congo. Girl children as young as 8 are married off in India, Pakistan and Nepal. Girls as young as 4 are subject to female genital cutting in northern Africa. Women are displaced in the Sudan. Women and girls are not permitted to go to school in Afghanistan. Women aren’t even allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. Girl children are abandoned in China. Women are forcibly sterilized in Tibet. Women are being denied access to contraception worldwide through USAID and PEPFAR, and have no way to prevent unwanted pregnancies, even when they know they risk transmitting HIV to their fetuses.

It’s pretty obvious that there is still much work to be done.

Arefa

Arefa — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Treating girls less important than boys in Indian family is a social stigma. The Constitution of India grants women and men equal rights but strong patriarchal traditions and centuries old customs shape women’s lives. Sons are still idolized in families and old grandmothers still bless newly wed women by saying May you be the mother of a hundred sons. Nothing is changed even in 21st century, you can see some change in major cities but in rural parts everything is as it was 50 years ago.

Chandni

Chandni — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

What Manusmriti laid down in 200 B.C. is still visible in 21st century. It says - ‘By a young girl, a young woman, or even by an aged one, nothing must be done independently, not even in her own house also. In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her husband is dead to her sons. A woman must never be independent.’ Indian society is still following the same in today’s time.

Ayushi

Ayushi — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

You can celebrate on success of women of elite class but for majority of Indian women the things are same as it was in their mothers’ time years back. India has the largest population of non-school-going working girls even after 60 years of Independence. The literacy rate for women is just 39% and for men it is 64%. The literacy rate for women in BIMARU states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) is lower than the national average. Its easy to dream but tough to make a dream possible.

Bin

Bin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

‘Wife givers’ are still considered as socially inferior to ‘wife takers even today in India. It is tough to change the mindset not even in 22nd century.

Ayushi

Ayushi — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Bin is right, it is tough to see any change because what I am seeing my mother had seen in her teen times. Even today, the first and foremost duty of a newly married young woman and only way to improve her position in family is to bear sons.

Prasad

Prasad — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Some questions to all successful women - Did career achievements really add up to the sum of a successful life? Living a successful professional life was all you wanted to get in life? What would you select for you in two options- 1. successful career or 2. successful family life. Mind you..your answer would either make the social bonding more strong or would break it completely. Its universal truth - without women and their honest contributions in family life, men can’t survive. This is the need of the time for both men and women to think seriously.

Elias

Elias — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Women are the most important pillars of society in any country. They are shaping society since ages. Men should respect them for their role in shaping lives.