She overcame everything that meant to destroy her!
by Shailya Puri
According to the United Nations the female population in India is 48.4% and the male population is 51.96%. Out of the 48.4, 58.5% of women still face discrimination and harsh practices against them.
Violence against women is a social (physical and mental) issue. People don’t understand that saying something offensive to a woman or a young girl can ruin her life and well-being. Article14 of the Constitution of India, reads as “The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.”
Every move by a woman is judged in the Indian society from her clothes, to her point of view, to her religion, to her family background. If we take a current example, Kangana Ranaut (a bollywood actress) tweeted she doesn’t feel safe in Mumbai after MumbaiPolice’s handling of the SushantSinghRajput death case. After which Shiv Sena gave her an open threat not to come to Mumbai , which made her compare Mumbai with Pakistan. After this, her production house was broken down, and was called an unpleasant word. Amir Khan commented on the same thing, where he said he does not feel safe in the country, the government peacefully had a discussion about it.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy abolished the practice of Sati (In the olden times when the husband would die the wife had to be burnt alive). After Sati, widows were not killed but were not allowed to remarry, they had to wear white clothes and cut their hair. In 1896, the enactment of The Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act, which was a major social reform to improve the condition of the widows in India.
Although the Indian Constitution grants men and women equal rights, gender disparities remain. So, back to the initial question “will a woman’s voice be secondary to a man?”
I think women try to have a voice but they feel like they are held back by the society for so many reasons.
What do you think?
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