In today's world, if you are a girl then God has given you a better deal than others. I'm myself a girl and have thoroughly enjoyed being one. I'm sure being a boy has its own benefits but being a girl means that you can have your cake and eat it too.
A girl has all opportunities in the world open to her. She can be a fire-fighter, a pilot, a police inspector, a professor, a dancer or simply a home-maker. That is, she can choose whatever she wants to do except work in combat for Indian defence forces. Women are not preferred for highly physical jobs, but still they've broken the ice in almost all fields. Men, however have yet to be successful home-makers or primary school teachers.
On the emotional front, women have always been deemed more 'sensitive'. The complex emotions of the civilized world dwell in a woman's heart. In this era, men have developed emotionally. Boys don't cry is an outdated saying. Men do realise their emotions. But, often they need to be five years older than women to be on the same level. Emotional maturity comes late for men. In India, due to wrong social customs men have never experienced the power of emotions which separate home sapiens from beasts.Unless, they had exceptionally good parents, boys' worlds tend to be one-dimensional.
It is this one-dimensional world that is thwarted by womanhood. Girls get the best of both worlds. A boyish girl or even a tom-boy is alright but a guy wearing a skirt is queer. So, isn't a girl's world better?
Men, however have yet to be successful home-makers or primary school teachers.
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i oppose that too. lots of males are primary school teachers.
Yes yes !! girls' world is better ... They get seats in buses ... they get reservation in government colleges and even in government jobs ... being a primary teacher may be appreciative for women but for a man its like a curse when he has to manage 4 members of his family with a wage of just Rs. 6,000/- ... They say they are standing shoulder to shoulder with men ... then why dont they deny reservation and come up on their own .... girls/boys ratio in good colleges like IIT's say a different story ....
ReplyDeletePS : No offences meant ... just expressed my thoughts on THE topic.
equality between man and woman. it's a topic that i have long been thinking to write on. but, these days, i do not have the time to do that.so, I'll write it in June.
ReplyDeletewell , reservation is necessary , because , in most households in rural india (and some in urban) people still think educating a girl is a waste of money...you need incentives for people like that to send their girl kids to school.
ReplyDeleteYou dont want a lot of children (Capable , i might add) missing out on quality education just because some people think moves to bring about gender equality are merely about being politically correct.
You mention quality institutes like the IIT ? well , the girls make a clean sweep of it at the entrances to medical colleges...quota or no quota.
Nobody , in their wildest dreams , would think of a job paying 6 k as good ..most women draw the same salary as men . This is when you look at private firms , where there is NO incentive given on the basis of gender.
"reservation is necessary , because , in most households in rural india (and some in urban) people still think educating a girl is a waste of money"
ReplyDeleteThese are the poor class or lower middle class people. If money is the problem so O.K. fine!! give them books, concession in fee, education can be made available in different ways where only the needy gets the benifit. But in present systems, if you talk of capability, even girls belonging to rich class don't hesitate to take benifit from reservation and reach there where someone[girl/boy] more "capable" might have been. I am not saying that girls are not intelligent or something ... the point I want to make is, If you talk of poor class even boys don't get the privilege of education[accepted that this case is more with girls but the difference is decreasing day by day],then why to discriminate on the basis of gender. The rules revision and amendments should be made accourding to present scenario and not according to what was there 50yrs back.